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Re: [Sip] ABNF issue



Hi Rob,

> I would argue that the grammar is not ambiguous when taken in context.  Refer the ABNF and text in section 7:
>
>          generic-message  =  start-line
>                              *message-header
>                              CRLF
>                              [ message-body ]
>          start-line       =  Request-Line / Status-Line
>
>    The start-line, each message-header line, and the empty line MUST be
>    terminated by a carriage-return line-feed sequence (CRLF).  Note that
>    the empty line MUST be present even if the message-body is not.

Yes.

> As has been shown before, you can't always take the ABNF in a vacuum - the context found in the rest of the RFC can often narrow what's allowed by the protocol, even when the ABNF says it's "legal".

I FULLY agree. But, in those cases you have to specify the things in the spec. Now the spec only says that the SIP part of the message ends with CRLF, and that is not the issue. IF the spec would
"narrow" the ABNF rules by saying that the definition of LWS is not valid in the beginning of a new line, OR if the spec would define the CRLFCRLF token, we would not have this problem.

Regards,

Christer Holmberg
Ericsson Finland








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