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Article #370"bare CR" and "bare LF" in RFC822 headers
From: Rich Wales
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 1984 21:55
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 1984 21:55
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RFC822 says you can have "bare" CR's and LF's in header text. For
example, the definition of the lexical token "text" (Section 3.3, page
10) reads as follows:
text = <any CHAR, including bare ; => atoms, specials,
CR & bare LF, but NOT ; comments and
including CRLF> ; quoted-strings are
; NOT recognized.
Also, the discussion on quoting (Section 3.4.1, page 11) mentions that a
CR must be quoted (i.e., preceded by a backslash) if it occurs within a
quoted string, domain literal, or comment. This is, I suppose, implicit
evidence that someone thinks CR's or CRLF's could appear in addresses.
What I want to know is -- does ANYONE, ANYWHERE, use (or intend to use)
"bare" CR's or LF's in addresses, or indeed anywhere else in a header?
(I am, of course, not talking about the CRLF end-of-line delimiter.)
Rich Wales
UCLA Computer Science Department
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