Re: CRLF vs LF was: Re: holding connections open...

hallam@dxal18.cern.ch
Sun, 18 Sep 94 20:48:21 +0200


>Am I imagining things are do we have some inconsistency about how
>servers terminate their header lines? Out of the side of my eye last
>week I think I perceived two major servers (NCSA and CERN) having
>different opinions whether to terminate a header line with a simple LF
>or a CRLF pair.

Both are permitted under RFC822 rules. Basically you can't guarantee
that a telnet port will send CRLF or that it will only send LF so both have
to be OK.

Phill H-B