ken wrote:
> >in testing the marker line format, i created a bunch of files of
> >varying sizes in order to attach them. by chance, i used dd from
> >/dev/zero to create the files, so they all consist of null characters.
> >
> >it turns out that when i attach such a file, something goes wrong, and
> >i end up with the mime header for the attachment, but an empty part, and
> >mhlist complains about "bogus multipart content"
>
> So, we handle text that contain NULs generally pretty lousy ... but
> AFAICT, a NUL is not valid in a RFC 5322 (or MIME) text part. The
> specifics of that are something I'm not sure about, through; it might be
> valid in some circumstances. AFAIK, if a NUL is in a non-text part, we
> should (and as far as I know, we do) handle that properly, becuase that
> gets encoded with base64.
it gets assigned a type of application/octet-stream, but no encoding
gets done. after using Attach:, and then running mime on the draft,
it looks like this: (copy/pasted from my edit buffer, where the nulls
show up as '^@')
----cut-here----
To: pgf-mhparts
Subject: yat
From: Paul Fox <p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us>
Cc:
Fcc: outbox
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----- =_aaaaaaaaaa0"
Content-ID: <22475.1399480415.0@grass>
------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-ID: <22475.1399480415.1@grass>
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paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 63.1
degrees)
------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="19900"
Content-Description: 19900
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="19900"
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^>
------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0--
----cut-here----
>
> If you could give specifics on what went wrong that would be useful.
should be able to in a day or three. if no one gets there first.
paul
>
> --Ken
>
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