Re: Comments in References

["Bjørn Mork" <bmork@dod.no>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 24 2008, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>> On Wed, Sep 24 2008, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>> Should gnus-parent-id strip comments, or is this the duty of its
>>>> callers?
>>>
>>> According to it's doc string, I'd say `gnus-parent-id' should strip
>>> it: [...]
>> What about this then?  I've tested it with
>> gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general, the false orphans are now correctly
>> threaded.
> [...]
>> 	* gnus-util.el (gnus-split-references): Strip comments.
>> 	(gnus-parent-id): Likewise.
>
> Looks good, thank.  Unless someone points out a problem (within ~1
> day), please install[1] it.  I'd say there is no doubt that this
> qualifies as a bug fix (I assume you verified that the RFCs allow
> CFWS).

RFC2822 does allow CFWS before and after a message-id. Quote from
section "3.6.4. Identification fields":


   The message identifier (msg-id) is similar in syntax to an angle-addr
   construct without the internal CFWS.

     message-id      =       "Message-ID:" msg-id CRLF

     in-reply-to     =       "In-Reply-To:" 1*msg-id CRLF

     references      =       "References:" 1*msg-id CRLF

     msg-id          =       [CFWS] "<" id-left "@" id-right ">" [CFWS]



Note that RFC2822 defines the CFWS as part of the msg-id, which IMHO
implies that the gnus-parent-id help text isn't really clear wrt
stripping comments.  Maybe the documentation should be updated to
clearify this?


Bjørn
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