[jdev] BOM

[Waqas Hussain]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Dickinson
<jonathan.dickinson at k2.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On Behalf Of Peter Saint-Andre
>> Sent: 07 November 2008 01:51 AM
>> To: Jabber/XMPP software development list
>> Subject: Re: [jdev] BOM
>>
>> Jonathan Dickinson wrote:
>> > Much obliged. As a case of interopability, maybe something like:
>> > entities MUST NOT send byte order marks, however, they MUST tolerate
>> > them.
>>
>>  I'm not sure exactly what "tolerate" means.
>
> Receiving entities shouldn't fall over when they get a BOM at the start of the stream: like the clients that I used to test my server did.
>
> -- Jonathan
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Considering that no servers send out BOMs, and pretty much no clients
do either, I don't really see much point in requiring all XMPP
software to handle BOMs.

--
Waqas Hussain