From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: 22081@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22081: 24.5; netrc.el fails parsing authinfo items spread over multiple lines
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 09:35:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86io492sh1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPGgwWR-gr-8pXi=APR5U4FBNFAvd2EJEo4miTCzn8Qy1_L56g@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon 07 Dec 2015, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:14:13 +0000 Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> AM> On Sat 05 Dec 2015, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>>> On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 14:25:00 +0000 Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My more important point was that there's no standard (or library) for
>>> parsing netrc files. In particular, quoting is not specified as I
>>> mentioned. The BSD spec is ambiguous and allowing multi-line entries
>>> would not serve any practical purpose.
>
> AM> The spec clearly defines that tokens are separated with SPACE TAB or
> AM> NEWLINE, which seems unambiguous to me.
>
> Without a quoting standard, it's not clear whether strings inside quotes
> can be multiline and whether the newline itself can be escaped.
The original spec is archaic - there is no quoting standard, only tokens
separated by whitespace. As such, a quote is simply another character.
> AM> Disallowing NEWLINE as a token separator means you are not parsing an
> AM> extension of the existing format, but something incompatible with it.
> AM> That's fine as it offers useful features, but it should use a different
> AM> file name to make it clear that it is not the same format.
>
> Fortunately `auth-sources' defaults to ~/.authinfo and ~/.authinfo.gpg
> before ~/.netrc right now.
Indeed.
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-08 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-03 10:20 bug#22081: 24.5; netrc.el fails parsing authinfo items spread over multiple lines Vasilij Schneidermann
2015-12-03 13:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-12-03 18:28 ` Glenn Morris
2015-12-04 14:25 ` Andy Moreton
2015-12-05 23:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-12-07 14:14 ` Andy Moreton
2015-12-07 18:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-12-08 9:35 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2015-12-08 14:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-12-14 17:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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