Re: HTTP 1.1 issue 03: 4.1 General Syntax

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> 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".                                         =
       
>  

A lower case should is appropriate in the second sentenc...  I don't want
to delete the second sentence, as it isn't obvious what problem is
being solved unless you are a BNF guru, and scratch your head for a while.
				- Jim

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