From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 22:30:05 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Now the commonenst sort of script of this type is the killfile. Are the
> relular-expression interpreters built into common browsers case
> insensitive when matching against header-names? I think not.
Most killfile implementations don't match against the header name at all;
they use their regular header parsing to find the appropriate header to
apply the expression to. That's even the common case for trn; it's
definitely the common case for most GUI clients.
But that's beside the point. Anything that's parsing news headers and
considers case significant is non-compliant. Our draft says so. So
you're arguing a contradiction.
> So there we have a definite interoperability argument, fully justifying
> the SHOULD.
There is no interoperability issue with compliant software.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>