Re: No canonicalization?

[Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura@nri.co.jp>]

Thanks. I just wanted to make sure of it.

It might be worthwhile to note that httpd MUST server xrd documents in 
raw format (and not as text) though.

=nat

Brian Eaton wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura@nri.co.jp> wrote:
>   
>> It just occured to me.
>>
>> Although we are talking about "binary signing" and "no canonicalization",
>> there seems to be some chances that httpd would transform \n to \r\n
>> depending on the server configuration.
>>
>> So do we want to standerdize on \r\n as the end-of-line?
>> (Well, it is a bit of canonicalizaton then...)
>>     
>
> We don't need it.  HTTP servers can and do transfer raw byte streams
> without messing with them.
>