[antlr-interest] stream parsing of http / smtp

[Terence Parr]

On Nov 15, 2004, at 5:04 PM, hanasakihanaden wrote:

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> Anyone ever considered a grammar for smtp or http protocols?  Does
> antlr have the ability to deal with the non-printable characters that
> may come in a stream for a binary transfer of a file (ex: ftp)

Sure. :)  Handles binary no sweat.  smtp and http are pretty simple 
(minus the headers I guess in HTTP) so I'm not sure a grammar is worth 
the hassle.  I have a student looking at an IMAP grammar, however.

Ter
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