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diff --git a/protocol.md b/protocol.md index ff6651b..71fee05 100644 --- a/protocol.md +++ b/protocol.md @@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ both client->server and server->client, always ends with a newline (ASCII 10) character. Preliminary definitions: -- A _string_ is a series of non-zero bytes. To allow for clients written in - languages that automatically parse strings as UTF-8, argument strings should - always be valid UTF-8. However, the server currently does not care. -- A _word_ is a string without spaces (ASCII 32) or newlines. Note that the - empty string is also a valid word. +- A _string_ is a series of non-zero bytes that are not newlines (ASCII 10). To + allow for clients written in programming languages that automatically parse + strings as UTF-8, argument strings should always be valid UTF-8. However, the + server currently does not care. +- A _word_ is a string without spaces (ASCII 32) (and also without newlines). + Note that the empty string is also a valid word. There are three kinds of messages: commands from the client, command responses from the server, and push messages from the server (not to be confused with push |