On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Tim Olson wrote:

> So is CrLf response line termination mandatory in HTML, or is it just the 
> most common?

HTML has nothing to do with this. It's all about HTTP - the network
protocol commonly used for transmitting HTML files.

>From RFC 2068 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2068.html):

2.2 Basic Rules

   HTTP/1.1 defines the sequence CR LF as the end-of-line marker for all
   protocol elements except the entity-body (see appendix 19.3 for
   tolerant applications). The end-of-line marker within an entity-body
   is defined by its associated media type, as described in section 3.7.

19.3 Tolerant Applications

   The line terminator for message-header fields is the sequence CRLF.
   However, we recommend that applications, when parsing such headers,
   recognize a single LF as a line terminator and ignore the leading CR.


So we should be nice and look only for LF :-)

/bert

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 Bert Freudenberg                                       Department of 
                                                        Simulation and
                                                        Computer Graphics
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