🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thursday, in article <crjjkt$1bp$1@gate.mcsquawk.org.uk>
     william@mcsquawk.org.uk "William F. McCaw" wrote:

> Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk> wrote:
> [snip]
> > This was then followed by the various lines of the article's header:
> [snip]
> > Note that throughout this part of the "dialogue", every line is
> > terminated with 0d 0a.  Note also the repetition of this sequence for the
> > blank line which separates the headers from the body (which starts with
> > the text "Alright all?"
> > 
> > The lines of the body do NOT have CR (0x0d) characters preceding each LF
> > (0x0a):
> [snip]
> > The remainder of the body exhibits the same lack of CR characters;
> > finally, at the end, the RFC is once again followed for the terminator
> > sequence:
> [snip]
> > Can no one reproduce this "on the line" traffic with this particular
> > article?
> 
>    I pulled the article down from news.dcu and used Ethereal to capture &
> examine the packets, and I saw exactly what you're reporting, header lines
> terminate with CR-LF, body lines with just LF, then normal service resumes
> with the article terminator...

[snip]

Thanks for the confirmation.

>    I also checked the article from the server I normally use these days
> (news.gradwell.net) and that came down normally with CR-LF line endings
> throughout.

Thanks too for that: it seems that, as I first suspected, news.dcu alone
is serving up corrupted copies of that particular article.

Back to Mr Clayton, I believe; I note that he's been very quiet since I
moved this thread to this froup: perhaps that's *why* he suggested it :-)

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                     bhk@dsl.co.uk
         "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu
         le loisir de la faire plus courte."
                             Blaise Pascal, /Lettres Provinciales/, 1657