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Re: [art] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7578 (5616)

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Mon, 04 February 2019 21:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7578 (5616)
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> In article <87va251q01.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> you write:
> >> Section 4.7 says that "Senders SHOULD NOT generate any parts with a
> Content-Transfer-Encoding header field."
> >
> >The "Original Text" gives an example, which seems to me to be correct.
> >However, as the erratum notes, the example violates the SHOULD NOT in
> >section 4.7.  And as section 4.7 notes, "Currently, no deployed
> >implementations that send such bodies have been discovered.",
> >suggesting that the example is not representative of current practice.
> >
> >But the proposed "Corrected Text" is itself incorrect, in that the
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding header is still present -- the given body
> >isn't valid for quoted-printable.
> 
> I'd leave it alone.  The example makes sense as is -- we don't encourage
> encoding the data but if you have to, here's how to do it.
> 
> At most hold for update to either redo the example with no encoding or add
> a warning about why this is a bad example.
> 

+1

Larry
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