inn-2.2 / storageapi + wireformat == corruption

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sat Sep 25 23:59:25 UTC 1999


David W Hankins <dhankins at mercenary.net> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 04:21:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Yup.  I finally had a chance to go and look at this, and QIOread() has:

> I'd rather innxmit just snarfed the article from storageapi then called
> write() once rather than operate in line mode like that.  But I guess
> the mime weirdness makes that too difficult.

The MIME weirdness is deeply frightening.  Does anyone know the history
behind -M?  USEFOR says thou shalt not do that (change the encoding of a
message in transit), and I really don't understand when that would be
useful.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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