Re: Digests: deprecating parameters?

Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Tue, 18 August 2020 15:29 UTC

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Roberto Polli writes:

> > I think this would be a good time to refer to the structured headers
> > document as a syntax basis
>
> Can be a solution, but how can we express this field-value with
> structured headers?
>
> Digest: sha-256=ababbababab;q=1,  sha-512=bfbfbfbfbf

almost exactly the way you did (with OWS for clarity):

	Digest: sha-256 = :ababbababab=: ; q=1 , sha-512 = :bfbfbfbfbf==:

sf-binary is there for precisely a use-case like this.

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