Re: Space after colon - text requested
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> Mark Martinec <[email protected]> writes: >Here is my attempt: A bit wordy, and not quite correct, so some emendations below: >> 3.6. Field definitions >> >> The header fields of a message are defined here. All header fields >> have the same general syntactic structure: A field name, followed by >> a colon, followed by the field body. The specific syntax for each >> header field is defined in the subsequent sections. >> >> Note: In the ABNF syntax for each field in subsequent sections, >> each field name is followed by the required colon. However, for >> brevity sometimes the colon is not referred to in the textual >> description of the syntax. It is, nonetheless, required. > Note: all structured and unstructured header field bodies defined > in this document allow an optional WSP as their first character. > It became a customary practice to place one SP there. Some other > protocols such as Netnews require such a SP, ... ^ [USEFOR (or RFC1036 at a pinch)], including NNTP [RFC3977], > ........ so a gateway needs > to modify header fields which do not conform to that stricter > specification. .......... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... and gateways cannot be relied upon to insert it ..... > ....... Moreover, some popular electronic mail message > transportation programs like to modify header fields to conform to > their idea of a pretty header field. Such necessary or frivolous > transformations can be detected by recipients and may rise suspicion > about message integrity or authenticity. ...... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [I would be happy to omit that bit, but it does no harm] > ...... Continuance of the practice > by implementors to place one SP at the beginning of newly generated > header field bodies is encouraged in order to facilitate > interoperability. +1 >> It is important to note that the header fields are not guaranteed to >> be in a particular order. ... -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5