ietf-nntp Folding

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Tue Apr 1 18:17:18 PST 2003


Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> 
> > IIRC, proper folding _requires_ that a non whitespace character follows
> > the CRLF.  So I don't believe that you can fold between spaces.
> 
> RFC 2822:
> 
> FWS             =       ([*WSP CRLF] 1*WSP) /   ; Folding white space
>                         obs-FWS
> 
> Seems pretty clear to me, unless my ABNF foo is lacking.

Sorry, my bad (pulling head out of ass).  It requires at least one WSP
after the fold, meaning that you can't fold in the middle of a
word/atom/whatever.

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