Emmanuel Gadaix wrote:
> 
> Strictly speaking, it probably doesn't violate the syntax as I claimed. But all
> RFC examples do not have the extra space, and Lotus Notes will not work with
> OpenSSL 0.9.5a because of it.
> 
> Why not just strip that extra space and follow the generally accepted format?
> 

Seems reasonably enough to me. Its nice to know it isn't strictly
speaking breaking the rules but making it work with other software with
such a minor change is more important.

I'll change this in the dev version and the 'stable' branch.

Steve.
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