On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Jueves, 27 de Marzo de 2008, Michael Giagnocavo escribió: > > > software source code is written by humans, for humans (and finally for > > compilers). I'm not sure anyone writes SIP messages by hand or creates them > > to make them easier to read. > > Even if SIP is as it is just to be human readable, it doesn't justify the > syntax it allows. For example: > > > a) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Content-Length: 46 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > b) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Content-Length : > > > 46 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Both a) and b) are correct, and b) is not more human readable at all. Also a) > is 400 times easier to parse than b) so, why allow b) ? > > Ok, I understand that SIP was born from HTTP and so, but anyway I hope in a > future SIP/X.0 appears eliminating so many and innecesary permissive syntax. > > Regards. > > -- > Iñaki Baz Castillo
That would be a very very bad idea because existing implementations are going to barf. It would be best to invent a new protocol entirely. I am looking for a catchy name... hmmm.... Lets call it "Jingle" shall we. It will be written in nice XML which you can also make entirely incomprehensible.... Ranga > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sip-implementors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors > -- M. Ranganathan _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors
