Tom: [big snip]
> You may recall we have had discussions of length v end of > record marker before > (and yes, I do like end of record markers:-) I see your concerns and think they are valid. I have argued for using a length in the header instead of an end of record marker. But this is different from what you are discussing now. We discussed it in the context that there were no header and we would exlusively rely on the end of record marker. As any valid character sequence is allowed in the MSG part, this is not a valid option (how do you know it is an EOR and not just a usual sequence in the middle of the message?). However, we can add a trailer, which is much like a cookie. For the same reason as the EOR, it is not fault-prooven by itself, but the likelyhood that is is mistakenly interpreted if you use it togehter with a byte counting header is small. Again, the only other alternative would be to disallow an EOR sequence inside MSG or require it to be escaped their. That sounds like a crappy little rule to me... Rainer _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
