At bis-05 the requirement to support CR and LF on reciept
was removed. 

We polled all the sip lists back in Sep/Oct and discovered
that nobody is generating CR or LF by itself, so support
for that has been deprecated.

RjS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christer Holmberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 5:03 AM
> To: Sarju Garg
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] Ambiguous line
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Sarju,
> 
> >The section 3 says the following "Senders MUST terminate lines with a
> >CRLF, but receivers MUST also interpret CR and LF by themselves as
> >line terminators".
> > 
> >What does this line mean? Is there some reason behind this line?
> >
> >I understand that if the sender sends lines not terminating 
> with CRLF,
> >then receiver should return 400 response as this is MUST requirements
> >or else change the line to "Senders should terminate ...".
> 
> The reason is backward compability. RFC2543, and maybe some older
> versions of bis, DID allow the use of CR or LF by themselves. That has
> been changed now (don't remember exactly in which bis version it was
> changed), and the use of CRLF is a MUST. But, to be able to 
> communicate
> with older implementations a node MUST be able also to 
> receive CR or LF
> by themselves.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christer Holmberg
> Ericsson Finland
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