bug#16220: url-http.el: Not conforming to HTTP spec

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Jarosław Rzeszótko <sztywny@gmail.com> writes:

> I believe that the person who originally introduced the additional
> newline most likely was confused by some issue in mediawiki.el itself,
> a broken HTTP server, a broken PHP script, or something of this kind,
> and obscured the real bug instead of fixing it:

Well, that's possible.  If there's a significant number of these broken
HTTP servers, then including the workaround is the correct thing to do.

I don't know whether that's the case, though.

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