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> Almost all implementations of these protocols will accept a bare NL as an end-of-line mark, even if it is technically incorrect.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41832555 as far as HTTP/1.1 goes, it's definitely common but far from universal. The big problem with "it's 100% safe to make this change, since it doesn't break anything I know about" is that there are always a lot of things you don't know about, not all of which can be boiled down to being negligible weirdos.




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