Re: lynx-dev -prettysrc, html comments and cr/lf problem

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> In a recent note, Leonid Pauzner said:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:57:08 +0400 (MSD)
> > 
> > Any web browser should render HTML pages with LF or CR/LF end-of-line 
> > symbols
> > (the latter mostly on Windows-generated pages) and give the same visual 
> > output
> 
> I believe CR/LF is the Internet standard for text transmission; mere LF
> should never appear in HTTP pages.  Of course this doesn't apply
> to "file:" URLs.

No, HTTP is less strict than other protocols.  CRLF, CR, and LF should
all be interpreted as line end and should have the same effect.  (And lynx
code goes to some lengths to try to do that.)  See the HTTP 1.1 RFC,
search for "canonical".

   Klaus