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



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