From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 06:34:45 CST
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> 2. In the References header in MESSFOR (and even in RFC 822) the
> whitespace between references is optional. In RFC 1036 and in our draft
> it is obligatory (and software is known to barf if it is omitted).
In the process of writing my message to the DRUMS people about this, I
noticed that I don't think our specification requires whitespace either.
Notice:
References-content = msg-id *( CFWS msg-id )
and from MESSFOR:
CFWS = *([FWS] comment) [FWS]
So CFWS can reduce to the empty string. I believe that in order to
actually require at least one whitespace character, our specification
would need to be written as:
References-content = msg-id *( FWS [CFWS] msg-id )
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>