Tweak base64 error handling language.

httpwg · Feb 1, 2018 · 17ff7c0 · 17ff7c0
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diff --git a/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure.md b/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure.md
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ Parsers MUST consider encoded data that is padded an error, as "=" might be conf
 
 Likewise, parsers MUST consider encoded data that has non-zero pad bits an error. See {{!RFC4648}}, Section 3.5.
 
-This specification does not relax the requirements in {{!RFC4648}}, Section 3.1 and 3.3; therefore, parsers MUST consider line feeds and non-alphabetic characters in encoded data as errors.
+This specification does not relax the requirements in {{!RFC4648}}, Section 3.1 and 3.3; therefore, parsers MUST consider characters outside the base64 alphabet and line feeds in encoded data as errors.
 
 ~~~ abnf
 binary = "*" 0*21846(base64) "*"