p0.34 fails to produce 1 text/plain portion

p0.34 fails to produce 1 text/plain portion

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Reading a clari.* group, I have a multipart/mixed containing
text/plain (main article)
text/html (some help text)
text/plain (photo caption) and
image/jpeg.

p0.34 will not show the first text/plain segment at all.

Screen shots in http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~karl/pgnus/no-plain/ are...

a.gif: `C-u g' to show raw article.
b.gif: 2nd page of raw article showing copyright notice at bottom.
(Yes, I know I'm forwarding around this copyrighted article.  It's for 
limited distribution [ding folk] and for bug-tracking purposes.)
c.gif: `g' to get article in its normal condition.
Note that only the copyright notice shows; the article text is AWOL.
d.gif: button-2 on image, to bring up the picture.
e.gif: button-2 on 1st text/plain; even the copyright notice disappears.
f.gif: button-2 on 1st text/plain again; copyright notice is back,
still no article text.

--karl

Re: p0.34 fails to produce 1 text/plain portion

[Kai Grossjohann]

The raw article shows that the first text/plain part does not contain
headers.  Is this proper MIME?

The mail has

,-----
| --=-=-
| 
| text goes here
`-----

I think it should be

,-----
| --=-=-
| Content-type: text/plain
| 
| text goes here
`-----

But I haven't read the RFC.

kai
-- 
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or is it de fact dat I'm ugly? -- Harry Belafonte

Re: p0.34 fails to produce 1 text/plain portion

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> The raw article shows that the first text/plain part does not contain
> headers.  Is this proper MIME?

I wondered that myself; if that's the problem, brad@clarinet.com needs
to be informed, so they can arrange to fix their software.  I've only
seen this problem with (some) clari.* articles.  I'll look around for
add'l failure cases.

Re: p0.34 fails to produce 1 text/plain portion

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

> The raw article shows that the first text/plain part does not contain
> headers.  Is this proper MIME?

Yes.  So it's a Gnus bug.

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