Andrew Ross wrote: > > The more I think about it, the idea of binary data and non ASCII chr > sets should be left for the BEEP or syslog reliable implementations. Amen :) > On the topic of delimiters. We discovered today that the PIX actually > sends a single LF at the end of its messages. Great! That just leaves the time stamp incompatible with the ideas we're discussing. > We have been discussing the delimiter recently as being CRLF. Can I > throw the cat amongst the pigeons and suggest we make it just LF? LF is > the Unix standard delimiter for files and streams. CRLF is more of a > Windows convention. > > Would it not be easier (and more code efficient) to search for just LF? > > Someone mentioned that CRLF is the Internet standard, can someone point > me to a URL that defines this? I always thought the Internet was more > Unix driven than Windows. HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, etc are all specified to use CRLF. However, most (albeit not quite all) daemons will also accept LF. The current talk was: - Senders SHOULD send CRLF - Receivers MUST be prepare to accept CRLF as well as LF. Coding this really isn't very hard, and would leave PIX compatible as far as (CR)LF termination is concerned. -- Mikael Olsson, Clavister AB Storgatan 12, Box 393, SE-891 28 ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK, Sweden Phone: +46 (0)660 29 92 00 Mobile: +46 (0)70 26 222 05 Fax: +46 (0)660 122 50 WWW: http://www.clavister.com _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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