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David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Wed Aug 29 18:33:01 2001


On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:59:25AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 02:02:18 +0200, Marc Mutz said:
>
> > Shouldn't gnupg be more generous in what it accepts here? Eg. rfc2045
> > explicitly requires MUA's to simply ignore any non-base64 character in
>
> rfc2045 says in the section on ascii armor:
>
> starting five dashes, and following the ending five dashes. The
> header lines, therefore, MUST start at the beginning of a line, and
> MUST NOT have text following them on the same line. These line
Don't you think this could be an example of "be conservative in what you generate, and liberal in what you accept"? Generate perfect RFC-compliant messages, sure, but maybe GnuPG should accept messages that are somewhat broken (especially in this case, which is a difference of whitespace only). Maybe we need a --strict and --nostrict :) David -- David Shaw | dshaw@jabberwocky.com | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson