ietf-nntp NNTP and 16-bit charsets

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sun Jul 8 02:57:39 PDT 2001


Martin Duerst <duerst at w3.org> writes:
> At 10:40 01/05/08 +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:

>> Here, again, is the full text.

>> Each response MUST start with a three-digit response code that is
>> sufficient to distinguish all responses. Certain valid responses are
>> defined to be multi-line; for all others, the response is contained in
>> a single line. All multi-line responses MUST adhere to the following
>> format:

>>     1. The resonse consists of a sequence of one or more "lines", each
>>        being a stream of octets ending with 0x0d0a (US-ASCII CRLF). Apart

> Can you please change 0x0d0a to 0x0d 0x0a? Otherwise, you very easily
> get problems when somebody uses that directly (in particular on a
> little-endian machine).

I agree with this change, and would also propose using capital letters for
the hex digits to distinguish from 0x better.  So 0x0D 0x0A instead of
what's there currently.

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



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