Re: [ietf-822] (no subject)

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 24 July 2018 04:28 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Peter Occil wrote:
> I mean from the point of view of a software developer creating a library to generate email messages.  This software developer is not the one who comes up with values for header fields (such as URLs for List-Unsubscribe header fields).  If the developer's software library is passed a List-Unsubscribe header field value greater than 998 characters in length (e.g., when a third-party user uses that library to generate a blank message, then to set the List-Unsubscribe header field to such a value, then to generate a finished message), the software developer would then have to make a choice whether to program that library--

But this is engineering, not theology.  If you use long URLs in headers, 
they don't work very well.  So don't do that.  If it were my library I'd 
throw an error if the list-unsubscribe header didn't fit in 998 characters 
so the person calling it would know to fix whatever was generating giant 
URL strings.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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