Processing MIME fields in an HTTP header.

2011-08-11 Thread Alan M. Carroll
I am looking at TS-466 (Multiline headers are not preserved) and as far as I can tell this is by design. The field parser in MIME.cc goes to some effort to detect this situation and then strip out the intervening whitespace, including the CR/LF. So something like Accept: text/html, text

Re: Processing MIME fields in an HTTP header.

2011-08-11 Thread Leif Hedstrom
A wild guess would be that some clients in the bad old days did not handle it right. We should obey the protocol IMO, possibly with having an option to enable this non-compliant behavior per transaction. -- leif Ps Logan airport sucks, that's all... ;) On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:07 PM, "Alan M. Ca