Martin Panter added the comment: FWIW in the HTTP bug <https://bugs.python.org/issue24363#msg244676>, David said “when seeing a line that doesn't look like a header the error recovery is to treat that line as the beginning of the body (ie: assume the blank line is missing).” I have no experience with email and RFC 5322 header handling, but it does make more sense to me to handle this as a defect in the header section, _not_ a genuine transition to the body (same as desired for the HTTP case).
Here is a patch that revives MalformedHeaderDefect (see Issue 14925), and continues parsing the rest of the header section instead of starting the body. But I am not sure how safe this change is. I did have to fix one unrelated set of tests (see headertest_msg in the Test8BitBytesHandling class) that did not include a blank line and was relying on the old behaviour. ---------- keywords: +patch versions: +Python 3.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43374/continue-header.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26686> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
