usefor-article-07 May 2002
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4.2.6. Undesirable Headers
A header whose content is empty is said to be an empty header (in
fact, no such headers are defined by this standard). Relaying and
reading agents SHOULD NOT consider presence or absence of an empty
header to alter the semantics of an article (although syntactic
rules, such as requirements that certain header-names appear at most
once, MUST still be satisfied). Posting and injecting agents SHOULD
delete empty headers from articles before posting them; relaying
agents MUST pass them untouched.
Headers that merely state defaults explicitly (e.g., a Followup-To-
header with the same content as the Newsgroups-header, or a MIME
Content-Type-header with contents "text/plain; charset=us-ascii") or
state information that reading agents can typically determine easily
themselves (e.g. the length of the body in octets) are redundant and
posters and posting agents Ought Not to include them.
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--- ../usefor-article-06/Undesirable_Headers.out November 2001
+++ ../usefor-article-07/Undesirable_Headers.out May 2002
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-4.2.5. Undesirable Headers
+4.2.6. Undesirable Headers
- A header whose content is empty is said to be an empty header.
- Relaying and reading agents SHOULD NOT consider presence or absence
- of an empty header to alter the semantics of an article (although
- syntactic rules, such as requirements that certain header names
- appear at most once in an article, MUST still be satisfied). Posting
- and injecting agents SHOULD delete empty headers from articles before
- posting them; relaying agents MUST pass them untouched.
+ A header whose content is empty is said to be an empty header (in
+ fact, no such headers are defined by this standard). Relaying and
+ reading agents SHOULD NOT consider presence or absence of an empty
+ header to alter the semantics of an article (although syntactic
+ rules, such as requirements that certain header-names appear at most
+ once, MUST still be satisfied). Posting and injecting agents SHOULD
+ delete empty headers from articles before posting them; relaying
+ agents MUST pass them untouched.
- Headers that merely state defaults explicitly (e.g., a Followup-To
- header with the same content as the Newsgroups header, or a MIME
- Content-Type header with contents "text/plain; charset=us-ascii") or
+ Headers that merely state defaults explicitly (e.g., a Followup-To-
+ header with the same content as the Newsgroups-header, or a MIME
+ Content-Type-header with contents "text/plain; charset=us-ascii") or
state information that reading agents can typically determine easily
themselves (e.g. the length of the body in octets) are redundant and
posters and posting agents Ought Not to include them.