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Erratum 6639: Error in obs-zone #73

Closed aamelnikov closed 1 year ago

aamelnikov commented 1 year ago

From https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6639:

Section 3.3 says:

zone = (FWS ( "+" / "-" ) 4DIGIT) / obs-zone

It should say:

zone = (FWS ( "+" / "-" ) 4DIGIT) / [FWS] obs-zone Notes:

The current syntax does not allow space before an obs-zone. Thus, it rejects header items like:

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:32:01 GMT

which are still being produced today by, for example, mail(1) on FreeBSD.

aamelnikov commented 1 year ago

Pete Resnick implemented a better solution:

obs-zone definition was updated with [CFWS] at the beginning and the end.

aamelnikov commented 1 year ago

I intend to close this ticket on November 25th 2022, unless objections are received.