On 2023/08/25 09:07:35 -0600, "Theo de Raadt" <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: > Pietro Cerutti <g...@gahr.ch> wrote: > > > The motivation is that several network protocols are line oriented > > with CRLF as line terminators. SMTP and HTTP are among the most > > popular. > > Yet, all servers of those protocols and and will accept the simpler 1-byte > line terminator.
Not http at least. Try nc www.openbsd.org 80 and type an http request, httpd(8) will be happily waiting for a \r. opensmtpd is less picky and is happy with just a line feed. (I don't have any opinion on adding a flag. To be fair, even if it were added I would probably forget and just use ^V^M^M instead of RET to terminate the lines when manually testing something.)
