Re: CRLF requirement

• From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
• Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:39:08 +0000
• To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
• cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <44396.1404571148@critter.freebsd.dk>

In message <9A043F3CF02CD34C8E74AC1594475C738DED40D7@uxcn10-tdc06.UoA.auckland.
ac.nz>, Peter Gutmann writes:

>	   The reason for the 16-bit swap is because
>	   the Fletcher checksum used in TCP/IP doesn't detect 16-bit word
>	   swaps, so this allows the connection-control to be invalidated
>	   without requiring a recalculation of the TCP checksum. 
>
>	   Someone probably got bonus pay for coming up with this */

Well deserved IMO, that is a neat hack :-)

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