space (was Re: Ra: ...)

From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 09:17:56 CDT


On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, J.B. Moreno wrote:
> Leaving the issue of the back-reference aside for the moment, there's been
> arguments over whether a header-name requires a space after the colon...

Not much room for argument, really. All previous specs (including RFC 1036)
require it, and major widely-deployed software insists on it. And the case
for *removing* this requirement is... what, exactly? This one's a
no-brainer: leave it as is, space required.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net




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