From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
Cc: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>, bugs@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: base64 behavior is not MIME compliant
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:09:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slyv7g1v.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DpBIu-000279-1x@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:43:04 -0400")
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> RFC 3548 has this to say about characters not part of the encoding
> alphabet:
>
> Implementations MUST reject the encoding if it contains characters
> outside the base alphabet when interpreting base encoded data, unless
> the specification referring to this document explicitly states
> otherwise. Such specifications may, as MIME does, instead state that
> characters outside the base encoding alphabet should simply be ignored
> when interpreting data ("be liberal in what you accept").
>
> Words such as "must" claim an authority we do not recognize in the GNU
> Project. We do not _obey_ standards--rather, we see what they have to
> say, consider their recommendations, then do what seems best.
>
> I believe the best fix is for base64-decode-region to take an optional
> argument which specifies how liberal it should be about it's input,
> defaulting to the current behavior, and for Gnus to use this argument.
>
> To decide whether to do this, we need to know the answers to three questions:
>
> Is there some situation in which the current behavior of
> base64-decode-region causes an actual problem or confusion for
> users?
I use base64-decode-region in my own email client written in elisp.
I have *never* had a problem with it decoding a file so I couldn't
read it.
Nic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-03 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-02 23:19 base64 behavior is not MIME compliant Marc Horowitz
2005-07-03 20:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-03 21:09 ` Nic Ferrier [this message]
2005-07-04 4:59 ` Marc Horowitz
2005-07-05 4:35 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-05 21:35 ` Marc Horowitz
2005-07-05 22:10 ` Nic Ferrier
2005-07-05 23:55 ` Marc Horowitz
2005-07-06 1:06 ` Nic Ferrier
2005-07-06 1:15 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-07-06 1:48 ` Nic Ferrier
2005-07-05 22:52 ` Arne Jørgensen
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