Re: Bug in MBOX classpathx

Countach wrote:
> There is a bug in the MBOX reader such that it blows up if the Date 
> header has a trailing space and you call Message.getSentDate().
>
> The problem is in MailDateFormat.parse....
>
>       if (end != len)
>          {
>            // Timezone
>            start = skipWhitespace(text, end + 1);
>            end = start + 1;
>
> If it gets to this point it assumes I guess that there must be a 
> timezone if there is trailing whitespace. So it calls skipWhitespace, 
> the trouble is skipWhitespace doesn't check for end of String, it 
> keeps calling charAt(pos) until it runs off the end of the String.
>
> Is there someone more familiar with the code who would care to fix 
> this?

I've updated the code to handle trailing whitespace, if you have any 
problems as a result of the changes please let me know.
-- 
Chris Burdess