Re: LuaSocket Patch for CR Handling

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 19:40, Stuart P. Bentley <stuart@testtrack4.com> wrote:
> ?What spec allows just CR? Every spec I've ever heard of mandates CRLF for
> transport.
>
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> Subject: LuaSocket Patch for CR Handling
>
> I've been playing with IRC for a bit now and one thing that's been
> bothering me is that the specs allow for a line to be terminated with
> just CR. LuaSocket however discards CRs and treats only LF as line
> break, which means any IRC client using it can't easily conform to the
> spec.
>
> I decided to fix this with a simple patch to recvline(); it now
> accepts CR, LF, or CR LF as line breaks. I didn't test this
> extensively, but everything still seems to be working, so here we go.
>
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Hm, well looking at it again I think I may have misunderstood the
spec... oh well. Maybe someone will find a use for it...

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