Re: mailcap/content-type bug +patch

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:19:42 +1000, Alexander Zangerl said:

> (see <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/294212> for the full story)
> exmh mangles Content-Types which contain a dot 
> (like application/vnd.ms-powerpoint).
> 
> i found the problem & fixed it. the original implementation did "sanitize"
> the content-type a bit too eagerly: only alphanumerics, the hyphen 
> and the forward slash survived. rfc2045 is a bit more generous, and
> the patch makes exmh follow rfc2045 properly.
> 
> dear upstream cvs committers: could somebody please apply that patch to
> the cvs version?

Hmm.. that check in the code is my fault.

Let me ponder this - the problem is that 2045 "allows" characters that I'm
not comfortable in passing (in particular, the ()<> shell metachars).  I was
quite intentional in being more zealous than rfc2045.

I've done a CVS commit to allow the '.' character to pass, to resolve the
show-stopper aspect of the bug.

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