On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter >> Saint-Andre >> Sent: 07 November 2008 01:51 AM >> To: Jabber/XMPP software development list >> Subject: Re: [jdev] BOM >> >> Jonathan Dickinson wrote: >> > Much obliged. As a case of interopability, maybe something like: >> > entities MUST NOT send byte order marks, however, they MUST tolerate >> > them. >> >> I'm not sure exactly what "tolerate" means. > > Receiving entities shouldn't fall over when they get a BOM at the start of > the stream: like the clients that I used to test my server did. > > -- Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > JDev mailing list > FAQ: http://www.jabber.org/discussion-lists/jdev-faq > Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 > Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ >
Considering that no servers send out BOMs, and pretty much no clients do either, I don't really see much point in requiring all XMPP software to handle BOMs. -- Waqas Hussain _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list FAQ: http://www.jabber.org/discussion-lists/jdev-faq Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________
