On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, John C Klensin wrote:
This is all about "no WSP before the
semicolon is now allowed", isn't it ?
Yep. The short answer is that before 2821bis-00 was produced,
someone persuaded me and at least one reviewer that the change
would improve things, fix that bug, and not have any nasty side
effects (what comments belong to, if formally meaningful, is
probably a 2822 problem). If the conclusion is that something
else should have been done, it can, of course, be fixed.
Why is allowing FWS before the semicolon a bug?
The current draft syntax still allows CFWS before ";" so the change seems
to have achieved nothing.
Tony.
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