[Info-vax] proper file format, attributes for non-binary files served by a web server

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4f1cde55$0$283$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> On 1/21/2012 11:57 AM, Steven Schweda wrote:
> > On Jan 21, 9:37 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
> > undress to reply) wrote:
> >>    What about with a different web server on
> >> VMS?  Is there such a thing as a preferred/recommended format for .txt
> >> files or html files on VMS?
> >
> >     When dealing with any program which uses the C RTL,
> > Record format: Stream_LF will be most natural.  For general
> > portability reasons, I try to use Stream_LF format for any
> > text files which will get sent to a non-VMS system.
> 
> They will be converted to CR LF for most protocols, so I am
> not so sure about the "natural".

I think SMS is thinking about the interaction between the OSU server and 
the file on the server side and you are thinking about what happens 
during the HTTP transport.

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Nearly every internet application protocol (HTTP, FTP, NNTP, SMTP) specifies
<CR><LF> as the line terminator and nearly every unix-derived application
screws it up at some point it its development.

                                                                 ---David Jones