On 23.08.2006, at 16:51 Uhr, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Guido Neitzer wrote:
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2.2.1. Unstructured Header Field Bodies
Some field bodies in this standard are defined simply as
"unstructured" (which is specified below as any US-ASCII
characters,
except for CR and LF) with no further restrictions. These are
referred to as unstructured field bodies. Semantically,
unstructured
field bodies are simply to be treated as a single line of
characters
with no further processing (except for header "folding" and
"unfolding" as described in section 2.2.3).
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So see what "folding" means. Section 2.2.3 says
2.2.3. Long Header Fields
Each header field is logically a single line of characters
comprising
the field name, the colon, and the field body. For convenience
however, and to deal with the 998/78 character limitations per
line,
the field body portion of a header field can be split into a
multiple
line representation; this is called "folding". The general rule is
that wherever this standard allows for folding white space (not
simply WSP characters), a CRLF may be inserted before any WSP. For
example, the header field:
Interesting. Haven't seen that. Thanks for the hint. Not really
intuitive, but okay.
cug
