ietf-nntp Draft summary of IETF 48 meeting

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> Yes, I think you word it as a canonicalisation of the header before
> matching. All whitespace (including folds and the nbsp character) is
> collapsed to a single SP, and then you match. The only thing in the
> wildmat that matches a SP is '?' or '*' or, in PAT, the gap between
> wildmats. It seems close enough to what INN does (does INN collapse
> folds, too?) and close enough to what XPAT seems to be trying to do.

I agree with this approach.  Let's put this into the standard; it's close
enough to existing practice to cause few problems, and it should be easy
enough to make the existing implementations match.

INN currently doesn't do the right thing with folded headers at all, but
that's its fault.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>