[feedback-report] ARF spec question

Steve Atkins steve at word-to-the-wise.com
Wed Mar 8 10:03:32 PST 2006


I have a snippet of ARF report here (with some of the data masked a  
little
to protect the guilty).

--_----------=_114183695220154735
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: message/feedback-report

Feedback-Type: abuse

Version: 1

Source-IP: 208.187.80.130

Feedback-Agent: HatStand/1.0

Received-Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 05:10:12 -0500


--_----------=_114183695220154735

There's one obvious problem - we're at version 0.1 right now,
not version 1 - but the spacing of the lines also seems wrong.

The spec says that the body of this content type consists of
multiple fields formatted according to the ABNF of RFC822
header fields. While you could take that to mean that each
individual field is formatted that way (which they are here) it
seems to me that the whole body should be formatted that
way, meaning that it terminates at the first blank line.

That leads to a couple of questions.

First, am I right to say that the snippet above isn't valid,
and the blank lines should go away?

Second, if so, do we need to clarify the wording in the
spec?

Cheers,
   Steve



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