From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 09 1999 - 05:49:59 CST
In <19991108113738.42704@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@main.templetons.com> writes:
>On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 11:32:02AM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> In <19991105171904.42143@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@main.templetons.com> writes:
>> But control messages are just part of the Control header. If existing
>> parsers first parse the Control header, expecting just to find a verb and
>> a few parameters separated by whitespace, which they then pass on to
>> specific code for each verb, then you can't suddenly expect to add new
>> syntax for a new verb that is not consistent with the existing model.
>Yes, of course the syntax of having a verb and then arguments remains.
>This fortunately, is not incompatible with the MIME syntax so why would there
>be an issue?
The syntax I have written for Control messages as a whole is the minimum
that is consistent with current implementations (it must be, otherwise
they would not be working). As to whether they would break if semicolons
and the like suddenly started appearing in new control messages, I have no
idea. You are the only one proposing this, so it is your job to dig out
the facts.
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