Re: master eaf224f: Repad the Face header in Gnus

[Alex Bochannek]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com> writes:
>
>> I went through a few years of Gnus newsgroups and other mailing lists to
>> see if I can find Face headers that break. I found two people who posted
>> invalid base 64 with embedded space characters. One case (a) was a
>> simple issue of improper header folding. The other case (b) is an odd
>> corner case where there is a single space right in a folded header field
>> and the proper padding assigned as well. How about something like this
>> to make case (a) display properly and not fail for case (b)?
>
> [...]
>
>> +(defcustom gnus-base64-repad-regexp "[A-Za-z0-9+/= ]"
>
> I don't think this is necessary -- nobody would want to customise
> something like this.

Follow-up on this from last year. I didn't get a chance to fully
implement the functionality and I believe this code path is now
disabled. I can pick it up again if you would like me to. If I can get
some more test emails that would make it a bit easier to handle the
corner cases.

-- 
Alex.