HTTP 1.1 issue 03: 4.1 General Syntax
Ross Patterson (ROSSP@ss1.reston.vmd.sterling.com)
Mon, 09 Nov 98 10:42:19 EST
In section 4.1 "General Syntax", the statements
"In the interest of robustness, servers SHOULD ignore any empty
line(s) received where a Request-Line is expected."
and
"In other words, if the server is reading the protocol stream at
the beginning of a message and receives a CRLF first, it SHOULD
ignore the CRLF."
state the same requirement in different forms. Unless they're needed
for other reasons, I suggest either deleting one of them or changing one
of the "SHOULD"s to "should".
Ross Patterson
VM Software Division
Sterling Software, Inc.