[sylpheed:30714] Re: MIME decoding is not done

[Bruce Bowler]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:41:57 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> put fingers to keyboard and said:

> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:03:29 +0100
> Stefaan A Eeckels <Stefaan.Eeckels at ecc.lu> wrote:
> 
> > I believe that the spaces surrounding the equals sign are a violation
> > of RFC2045, which says the following about the "Content-Type" syntax
> > (section 5.1):
> > 
> > | parameter := attribute "=" value
> > 
> > Notice that spaces are not allowed between "attribute" and "value". 
> 
> Fixed in svn trunk (allow spaces around equals between name and value),
> even if it is suspicious to be a RFC violation.
> 

Just a lone voice in the woods, but I would advocate "strict adherence to
the standard" and NOT allow the spaces.  I mean, after all, standards are
standards, not guidelines.  If the standards are ignored, pretty soon
Microsoft will "rule the world" (oh, wait, too late)

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