GNU bug report logs - #16220
url-http.el: Not conforming to HTTP spec

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Reported by: Jarosław Rzeszótko <sztywny <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 20:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jarosław Rzeszótko <sztywny <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16220: url-http.el: Not conforming to HTTP spec
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 08:50:11 +0100

Jarosław Rzeszótko <sztywny <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I believe that the person who originally introduced the additional
> newline most likely was confused by some issue in mediawiki.el itself,
> a broken HTTP server, a broken PHP script, or something of this kind,
> and obscured the real bug instead of fixing it:

Well, that's possible.  If there's a significant number of these broken
HTTP servers, then including the workaround is the correct thing to do.

I don't know whether that's the case, though.

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