ietf-nntp OVER and PAT
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Wed Nov 22 03:11:32 PST 2000
Charles Lindsey said:
> Because the client doesn't know how many spaces he is trying to match (if
> he already knew what was in the header, then he probably wouldn't be using
> PAT in the first place). In particular, if the client is trying to match
> whitespace where he suspects there may have been a fold, then he is
> completely lost because different implementations put different numbers of
> SPs there anyway.
> So I think we need to fix either the canonicalisation in OVER, OR provide
> whitespace matching in wildmats. I agree it is not necessary to fix both.
I've modified my wildmat proposal to have \s match sequences of spaces. I
think this is the right way to go. Though it still wouldn't hurt to fix the
canonicalisation issue.
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