Re: [Nmh-workers] content type syntax?

[David Levine]

According to RFC 2045, it's not legal syntax, because a
(non-quoted) token cannot contain spaces:

     content := "Content-Type" ":" type "/" subtype
                *(";" parameter)
                ; Matching of media type and subtype
                ; is ALWAYS case-insensitive.

     parameter := attribute "=" value

     attribute := token
                  ; Matching of attributes
                  ; is ALWAYS case-insensitive.

     value := token / quoted-string

     token := 1*<any (US-ASCII) CHAR except SPACE, CTLs,
                 or tspecials>

I don't know of a good way to get mhshow to handle it.  If
you want to hack the source, it looks like line 789 of
uip/mhparse.c is the place:

            for (cp = dp, dp = vp; istoken (*cp); cp++, dp++)

I don't see how allowing spaces in the token could hurt, if
we want to consider a permanent hack.

David


Paul writes:

> can someone tell me whether this is legal syntax for
> a Content-Type field?
> 
>  > --Apple-Mail-21--97781285
>  > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>  > Content-Type: application/pdf;
>  >         x-unix-mode=0644;
>  >         name=Low Cost Laptop.pdf  
>  > Content-Disposition: inline;
>  >         filename="Low Cost Laptop.pdf"
>  >             
> 
> the issue, unsurprisingly, is the lack of quotes on the "name="
> field.  i have the following rule in .mh_profile, which catches
> otherwise unhandled application types and lets me save the file:
> 
>     mhshow-show-application: fallback_save '%f' '%a'
> 
> when invoked, the fallback_save script is getting the string:
> 
>     'x-unix-mode="0644" name="Low"'
> 
> (without the single quotes) as its second argument.
> 
> so -- who's at fault, and if it's apple mail, is there a way
> to make mhshow handle this better?

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