Re: pgnus 0.25 problem

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Jakub.Martynski@spam.is.lame.org (Jakub Martyński) writes:
> 
> > I found problem in Pgnus 0.25:
> > 
> > Signaling: (error "Invalid header: text/plain;")
> >   signal(error ("Invalid header: text/plain;"))
> 
> Which brings us to a general question -- what is Gnus supposed to do
> with broken headers?  Signalling errors is much too drastic, but
> should it just ignore them?  Or try to do something with them?  And
> if so, what?

"Be conservative in what you send; be liberal with what you receive."

Applied to Gnus, this means that it should try to be as lax as
possible when parsing the headers (in the above case, it should ignore 
the semicolon and perhaps assume the charset is latin1), and ignore
them when they're totally bogus.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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