Re: [tpop3d-discuss] problem with password containing spaces

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 06:48:34PM +0200, Tadas Þelionis wrote:
> 
> 
> at lest versions 1.3.5 & 1.4.1 of tpop3d can't handle password containing
> space because of POP command parameter parsing mechanism.

This is left unclear in the spec (RFC 1939)--

  Since the PASS command has exactly one argument, a POP3
  server may treat spaces in the argument as part of the
  password, instead of as argument separators.

I made the decision to make the command parsing
consistent rather than to adopt this special case. It
could be changed, I suppose.

Note that this does not affect the APOP mechanism
(obviously).

> kinda serious bug, affects a lot of users...

Really? I was under the impression that most users had
passwords like `secret', `hello' and `123'.

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