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Re: CRLF vs LF was: Re: holding connections open...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
Sun Sep 18 13:40:35 1994

Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 19:32:49 +0200
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From: frystyk@ptsun00.cern.ch (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
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> Am I imagining things are do we have some inconsistency about how
> servers terminate their header lines?  Out of the side of my eye last
> week I think I perceived two major servers (NCSA and CERN) having
> different opinions whether to terminate a header line with a simple LF
> or a CRLF pair.

As far as I can see, the header lines must comply to the MIME spec and
hence contain a <CRLF> as a line break. This is also what the CERN
server does.

-- cheers --

Henrik Frystyk


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