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Author	jelie
Recipients	jelie, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger
Date	2010年11月03日.17:55:53
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Message-id	<1288806955.85.0.708016176321.issue10281@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> Er, so you're disagreeing with your previous message? > Or am I missing something? :) I was saying that if an empty string is returned, then it means that the header exists and is empty. An example was "User-Agent: \r\n". And my remark "I believe None is better." concerned your initial question "Should the field be totally absent [...]" regarding how to deal with a header that does not exist. Therefore, "User-Agent: \r\n" becomes a real '', not None. None is only when the User-Agent: header field is absent from the headers. > Here is a patch trying to better handle whitespace. > Would it be ok for you? Yes Antoine, thanks!

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> Er, so you're disagreeing with your previous message?
> Or am I missing something? :)
I was saying that if an empty string is returned, then it means that the header exists and is empty. An example was "User-Agent: \r\n".
And my remark "I believe None is better." concerned your initial question "Should the field be totally absent [...]" regarding how to deal with a header that does not exist.
Therefore, "User-Agent: \r\n" becomes a real '', not None. None is only when the User-Agent: header field is absent from the headers.
> Here is a patch trying to better handle whitespace.
> Would it be ok for you?
Yes Antoine, thanks!

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010年11月03日 17:55:56	jelie	set	recipients: + jelie, rhettinger, pitrou, r.david.murray
2010年11月03日 17:55:55	jelie	set	messageid: <1288806955.85.0.708016176321.issue10281@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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