On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Bob Wyman <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Salz <[email protected]> wrote: > > is the leading whitespace ignored? > > Section 7.2 of the draft says: "Normalize the string by removing all > whitespace characters from input." > So, Yes, whitespace is ignored. Simple! >
It also makes generating printable examples much, much easier ;) > > Note: Magic Signature discussions should be on: > http://groups.google.com/group/salmon-protocol > > We'd welcome discussions about both magic signatures and salmon on the salmon-protocol list; if there is wider interest in magic signatures we can start a new list. Aside: Sorry about the name, we needed something to go out with and couldn't some up with anything better... > bob wyman > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Richard Salz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > See the draft for details: >> >> http://salmon-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-panzer-magicsig-00.html >> >> Interesting. The term "magic" is a little to cutesy for me, but maybe I'm >> just getting old. >> >> The draft, and the RFC on base64 it references, aren't specific enough >> about whitespace. Maybe I read too quickly, but the sample shows indented >> lines -- is the leading whitespace ignored? Embedded whitespace? Where >> odes it say that? >> >> I'd propose something similar: all whitespace is ignored when generating >> the digest. Then even more issues vanish. >> >> /r$ >> >> -- >> STSM, WebSphere Appliance Architect >> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/soma/ >> >> >
