Mark Crispin wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:
What is the meaning of BINARY[]?
I think that it should be a syntax error, but unfortunately the section-binary rule in RFC 3516 is: section-binary = "[" [section-part] "]" instead of: section-binary = "[" section-part "]" I consider this to be a bug in RFC 3516. If it intended to make BINARY[] valid, it should have used the RFC 3501 "section" rule.
Fetching BINARY[..] for message/rfc822 body part has the same problem.
As does MULTIPART/...anything...
I guess we didn't do a very good job during last call of this doc ;) I've only stumbled into these issues while implementing it. Maybe (as Rob suggested offline) that independent interoperable implementations should be a prereq (or at least strongly recommended) for a last call.
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