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just because you wrote MUST doesn’t mean people are gonna m8

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when they say “this specification uses the key words … with the meanings set out in RFC 2119” and then don’t use the key words with the meanings set out in RFC 2119

MUST means a violation will result in improper behaviour

if a violation does not result in improper behaviour, you SHOULD NOT use MUST

@Lady if you ever try netcat-ing a busybox httpd you’ll find it will respond to a GET request before you’ve even sent a Host header, which directly violates the HTTP standard

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