From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 15:01:08 CDT
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Bruce Lilly wrote:
> > Like it or not, trailing whitespace is *not* reliably
> > preserved in Usenet transmission and storage, and it's best not to depend
> > on it, either for continuation parsing or for the obligatory SP.
>
> The critical question on the table is whether there is in fact any
> software still in use which *does* depend on either the existence of
> the SP after colon or on something between that and the first line folding
> of a continued field.
As others have already noted, the answer to the former is definitely yes.
And the latter follows from the former: if the SP is mandatory, than any
continued header which has nothing on the first line after the SP has
significant trailing white space, generally a bad idea.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net