Re: [apps-discuss] draft-kucherawy-rfc5451bis

[Alessandro Vesely <[e-mail]>]

On Fri 15/Mar/2013 12:34:03 +0100 Dave Cridland wrote:
> 
> Authentication-Results: foo.example.net (My mailserver) / (I am
> number) 1 (You see) ; dkim (Because I like it) /2 (Two yay) = (wait
> for it) pass ; policy (And a dot can go here) . (Like that) fruit
> (which surprised me) = (because I was not expecting it) banana

My understanding is that the above is not valid.  Nuking three chars,
the first "/" and the "1" from autherv-id, which should be dot-atom,
and then the ";" between "pass" and "policy", which shouldn't be
there, I can parse it with my new Perl function, and get:

$VAR1 = {
          'dkim' => [
                      {
                        'policy_fruit' => 'banana',
                        'result' => 'pass'
                      }
                    ]
        };

(I s/./_/ for ease of use.)

I agree the grammar is laid down too lazily.  For example, dot-atom
allows equal signs to be part of property, e.g. "fru=it", which would
be unparsable.