| Re: Encoding Problems [message #186358 is a reply to message #186356] |
Sun, 06 July 2014 11:14   |
Richard Damon
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Registered: August 2011
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On 7/6/14, 1:21 AM, Gordon Burditt wrote:
>> multipart/form-date would be a value for Content-Type, not a value for
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding.
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>> The defined vauls (By RFC 2045) of Content-Transfer-Encoding are:
>> quoted-printable
>> base64
>> binary
>> 8bit
>> 7bit
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> Never forget that viruses and malware aren't required to obey the
> rules, and you could very well end up with Content-Type: spam/virus
> and Content-Transfer-Encoding: rot13 .
>
And if you don't properly "decode" that payload there is a problem?
Yes, you don't want you program to crash on an improper value, and
somehow rejecting malformed messages is preferable, but ignoring the
error isn't bad (assuming your ultimate processing of the message is
well controlled)
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