[Gllug] HTTP CONNECT

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:29, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2002, Mark Lowes wrote:
> 
> > If you can't be bothered to type in the url correctly why should you
> > expect the server to help you out?
> 
> If you can't be bothered to accept my shorthand, I can't be bothered to 
> view your site :)
> 
> "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"
> 
> I had to go digging for the source of this quote and, although it pops up
> all over the RFCs, it seems to be most explicit in RFC1122, section 1.2.2
> 
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/std/std3.txt
> 
> Anyone know if that is the definitive origin ?

Don't know, but I've seen the quote attributed to Eric Allman before
now, regarding the design philosophy of sendmail. Of course, he may just
have copied ti from somewhere else.

Mike.


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