From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68943 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitri Paduchikh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: application/octet-stream sent as 7bit Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:42:01 +0600 Message-ID: <87zl9hpgeu.fsf@paduch.telenet.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251655585 15622 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2009 18:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:06:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17362@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Aug 30 20:06:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MhonC-0000fq-An for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:06:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Mhom8-0004Rj-I0; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:05:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MhkfU-0003CA-Tq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MhkfT-0005CF-J9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from k66.ru ([87.224.128.21]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Mhkg4-0002CQ-00 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:42:40 +0200 Original-Received: from paduch.telenet.ru (account dpaduch [90.157.67.22] verified) by k66.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.13) with ESMTPSA id 337240711 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:42:01 +0600 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68943 Archived-At: Hello! In some cases Gnus sends application/octet-stream attachments in unencoded form: ,---- | --=-=-= | Content-Type: application/octet-stream | Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.sh | | #!/bin/sh | echo test `---- I am concerned that contents can change when transferring a message. Think of EOL conversions, ">From " stuff, etc. Such changes can corrupt shell script, for example. In general, RFC 2046 says that application/octet-stream denotes arbitrary binary data. For arbitrary binary data I would expect that it is transferred exactly as is, even if it looks like a 7-bit text. -- Dmitri Paduchikh