I will see that the headers are corrected before the final release.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> I assume that the CRLF standard violation is not really essential here
> >> but the missing body.
>
> Bill was absolutely correct about the empty bodies for 204 replies
> being OK.
>
> > IIRC newline (not CRLF or LF) was used in the html standard, apache
> > accepts both CRLF and LF, while IIS only accept CRLF. Most browsers
> accepts
> > both.
>
> I was talking about HTTP headers, not HTML bodies.  The standard
> (HTTP_1.0: RFC 1945, HTTP_1.1: RFC 2616) is very clear that CRLFs
> not just LFs should be used for HTTP headers.  Yes, most browsers
> will accept either, but that's no excuse.  Postel's Law applies:
> "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
> others."  JHS should be corrected.
>
>                                                        Martin
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