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Re: (lack of) message header field ordering

2005-03-13 15:49:08

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

Right now, it's sensible to consider only the received fields before the first
other field, and assume that any later fields have been processed by a
nonstandard randomizer.

The proposal seems to invalidate that simple heuristic.

It might make sense to define a subset of the header field name space
which can be used by these fields, by analogy with Resent-*.

Tony.
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