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Canonicalisation

How tolerant the signature is of whitespace changes in headers and body, as a pair of modes.

In detail

Four combinations of simple and relaxed for headers and body. Relaxed headers survive the reformatting that intermediate servers perform; simple body is stricter about the body's exact bytes. The console preselects relaxed/simple, which we saw carried into a real signature.