On 31 Jan 2001 19:59:28 +0000
Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> said...
> Charles>
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>
> this line's not valid. You aren't allowed to have non-separator lines
> that have the boundary delimiter as a prefix.
>
Hmmmmm! RFC 2046 seems rather vague about this. I see a "NOTE TO
IMPLEMENTORS" which says "must compare the boundary value with the
beginning of each candidate line" (note 'must', not 'MUST'). Is it
mentioned anywhere else?
I note that Netscape does not implement that "feature". It expects
the whole boundary value to be present, though it does ignore further
trailing whitespace, as required by RFC 2046.
One might omit that line with 70 '-'s, but it would not then conform
with RFC 1153. Would this confuse some present newsreaders? NN has no
problem with that, but then I suspect nn is detecting the Subject:
lines, rather than the lines with 30 '-'s.
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