Re: MailBox Bug: space after "boundary" element causes proc to wedge

I've found the problem.

Line 84 of Mail/Message/Field/Structured.pm only nukes whitespace if it
comes after a semicolon; thus, the until($string eq '') is never satisfied
and the parse() method loops infinitely.

I've fixed it locally by changing line 83 to:

  until($string =~ /^\s*$/)

This solves the symptom, but maybe you would be better off with a
consumeWhitespace() method for completeness.

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:05:46AM -0700, Anthony D. Urso wrote:
> I am still using perl 5.8.0 (it seems like anytime I upgrade anything,
> things break in strange ways).  It is running on a Linux 2.4.24 box.
> Mail/Box.pm states it is v2.057.
> 
> I've attached a tarball with both files.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:31:40AM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote:
> > * Anthony D. Urso ([email protected]) [041016 08:02]:
> > > Mail::Message::Head::study to hang at the 
> > >   return map {$_->study} $self->get(@_)
> > > 
> > > The symptoms feel like a busy loop.  Calling get() on the same header does
> > > not cause the hang.
> > 
> > There are no busy-loops in MailBox.  Anyway: I cannot reproduce your
> > problem with perl 5.8.1 or 5.8.5 and the latest MailBox release.  Not
> > with the C-parser and not with the Perl-parser.
> > 
> > Could you be more clear about the enviroment you are using?  Can you
> > send me the attachments as tar or zip archive, because your example
> > may have got mutulated during transport.
> > -- 
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