Strictly speaking, it probably doesn't violate the syntax as I claimed. But all
RFC examples do not have the extra space, and Lotus Notes will not work with
OpenSSL 0.9.5a because of it.
Why not just strip that extra space and follow the generally accepted format?
On 30/01/2001 10:47:32 Jonathan Paisley wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Emmanuel Gadaix wrote:
>
>> Problem
>>
>> When generating MIME mails, e.g. for signing an email, OpenSSL adds an
>> extra white space before the semi-column sign that separates the
>> headers. In doing so, it violates MIME syntax (see RFC 2045, 2046,
>> 2047).
>
>Can you be more specific about how it violates the syntax? I agree that
>it's not necessarily friendly, but I couldn't find (from a quick
>look) that this is explicitly disallowed. In fact, RFC822 seemed to be
>telling me that it was ok:
>
>====
> 3.4.2. WHITE SPACE
>
> Note: In structured field bodies, multiple linear space ASCII
> characters (namely HTABs and SPACEs) are treated as
> single spaces and may freely surround any symbol. In
> all header fields, the only place in which at least one
> LWSP-char is REQUIRED is at the beginning of continua-
> tion lines in a folded field.
>====
>
>Thanks.
>
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>Jonathan Paisley
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