Éric Araujo <[email protected]> added the comment:

Thank you for the report.  This is how I understand the part of the spec you 
quoted: Strictly valid HTTP uses CRLF, but servers and clients should be 
liberal in what they accept and deal with LF too.  Senthil, do you agree with 
that?

There are a small number of PyPI-like servers out there which seem to deal fine 
with what distutils produces.  We have strong backward compatibility 
constraints in distutils, so we try to make the less changes possible to fix 
bugs.  Because we’ve haven’t had this reported by those other servers before, 
I’m tempted to reject this report.  The good part is that since you’re still 
writing the server, you can change its code to follow Postel’s Law and be 
liberal in what you accept.  Does that sound acceptable to you?

Best regards

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assignee:  -> eric.araujo
components: +Distutils, Distutils2
nosy: +eric.araujo, orsenthil, tarek
versions: +3rd party, Python 3.2 -Python 2.6

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