Improve the parsing of folded Xref header fields #230
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bug
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C: general
Related to several components
P: low
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RFC compliance
Related to NNTP standards and the format of Usenet articles
I once began a patch (for 2.5.x) to handle folded Xref header fields after a bug report, but somehow not finished it.
It could be useful in theory as RFC 5536 allows folding in Xref header fields. Though this is not a common practice, and INN does not generate internally such folded headers.
Also, it enhanced
skip_cfws()
andskip_fws()
to check for a continuation line. It may be the reason why I did not finally commit it (a thorough review of these calls should be done).I put here what I came up with (for
innd
,nnrpd
,expire
,tradspool
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