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An RFC is a "Request For Comments": the form of internet standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) until they are made standards. And the usual form of reference to those standards.

An RFC is a "Request For Comments": the form of internet standards from the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) until they are made standards. And the usual form of reference to those standards.

Official Site: http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html

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Any parsers for RFC documents?

RFCs (http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html) are usually published as text files. Are there any other formats, which would make parsing the RFC content easier? Are there any parsers for the widely used RFC text documents?
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What is the editor used for writing RFC text files?

I am just wondering how much effort is required to write a text file like that with page numbers, table of contents, headers, footers etc. Is there any editor or some thing like TeX that is used for writing the RFC documents?
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SMTP dot stuffing.. when and where to do it?

I have found conflicting information about dot stuffing when transmitting an email. stuff a dot if the line contains a single dot (to avoid premature termination) stuff a dot to every line stat starts with a dot stuff a dot to (1) and to every line…
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Is there an RFC on EML file formats?

Basically, I'm attempting to work with EML files and I want to know if these files are pretty standard across different email servers... basically, is there an RFC on EML files just like there is one for email addresses and other topics? I guess I…
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What does QD stand for in DNS RFC1035

I was just curious about the nomenclature of certain variables part of DNS's RFC: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt While I was able to find most other acronyms : AN in ANCOUNT seems stands for Answer NS in NSCOUNT stands for Name Server AR in…
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Validation/Format of display-name in from header

I need to know what are the rules for validation/format from(name-addr) field in the email. In rfc explained the format of name-addr, but goes into detail about the display-name. Like this: From: John Q. Public I want to know the…
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RFC documents to A4 format

When printing RFC documents on my A4 format printer I noticed that I print more than it is considered to be one page in RFC document. I figure this is because probably RFC is written in North American paper letter format (216 × 279 mm) and I want to…
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Leading underscores in an email address?

What RFC would I refer to in order to find out if a leading underscore in the local part of an email address is acceptable? Example: _johndoe@hotmail.com Of course, this question can also apply to any leading special character. I found this line in…
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Why does SOCKS5 require to relay UDP over UDP?

The SOCKS5 protocol, described by RFC1928 provides support for UDP. To summarize, a client wishing to relay UDP packets through a SOCKS5 server must, at least: open a TCP connection to the SOCKS5 server; send a UDP ASSOCIATE request (cf section…
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Maximum Cookie Size of current browsers (Year 2018)

From the django docs: Both RFC 2109 and RFC 6265 state that user agents should support cookies of at least 4096 bytes. For many browsers this is also the maximum size. Source: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/request-response/ Is this…
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multipart/form-data, what is the default charset for fields?

what is the default encoding one should use to decode multipart/form-data if no charset is given? RFC2388 states: 4.5 Charset of text in form data Each part of a multipart/form-data is supposed to have a content- type. In the case where a…
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Is there any documentation for omitting zeroes in dot-decimal notation of IPv4 addresses?

I’ve noticed that Linux and *BSD systems allow user to skip octets when using dot-decimal notation. Here are some examples: $ ping 10.1 PING 10.1 (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. $ ping 10.15.1 PING 10.15.1 (10.15.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. Note…
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Online SpamAssassin evaluation / RFC conformant check

I want to check the SpamAssassin SPAM score of E-Mails including headers generated by a script from a WebApp. Therefore I need to run this mail through SpamAssassin to get the specific SPAM headers like: Yes, score=6.032 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_24=1.282…
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A C# parser for Web Links (RFC 5988)

Anyone created an open source C# parser for Web Links HTTP "Link" header? See: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5988. Example: Link: ; rel="previous"; title="previous chapter" Thanks. Update: Ended up creating…
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How to fragment H264 Packets in RTP compliant with RFC3984

I have the FFMPEG streaming baseline h264 video, which I have to encapsulate in RTP and send to SIP phones for their decoding. I am using Linphone with the h264 plugin for Windows and Mirial for the decoding progress. However, sometimes I get a huge…
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