On approximately 10/8/2009 8:47 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Tokio Kikuchi:
Actually, as long as the prepended text is ASCII, all that work can be
done on the encoded value. When it is not ASCII, it may still be
separated and recognizable. Still that logic is more complex than
decoding, handling as Unicode, and encoding.... when it works. Just
pointing out that there is more than one way to do things...
Oh, really?
Base64 is 3 to 4 octets encoding and there is no way to prepend padding.
In header values, encoding is done using encoded-words. A header value
consists of a sequence of ASCII words, and encoded-words. While an
encoded word, that uses base64 encoding cannot easily be adjusted to
prepend data into that encoded-word, additional ASCII or encoded-words
can be prepended in front of the other ASCII or encoded words within the
header-value.
So, yes, really!
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
===========================
A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove.
-- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration Networking
_______________________________________________
Email-SIG mailing list
[email protected]
Your options:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
