> I'm hoping this is satire. Why intentionally introduce potential bugs for the sake of making a point?
It’s worse than satire. Postel’s Law is definitively wrong, at least in the context of network protocols, and delimiters, especially, MUST be precise. See, for example:
It’s worse than satire. Postel’s Law is definitively wrong, at least in the context of network protocols, and delimiters, especially, MUST be precise. See, for example:
https://www.postfix.org/smtp-smuggling.html
Send exactly what the spec requires, and parse exactly as the spec requires. Do not accept garbage. And LF, where CRLF is specified, is garbage.