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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1] mailinfo: de-quote quoted-pair in header fields
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:18:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160915071822.dpfgg7yldtzar4b2@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160915051533.GC26893@ikke.info>

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 07:15:33AM +0200, Kevin Daudt wrote:

> > > Another small thing I am not sure about is if the \ quoting can hide
> > > an embedded newline in the author name.  Would we end up turning
> > > 
> > > 	From: "Jeff \
> > >             King" <peff@peff.net>
> > > 
> > > or somesuch into
> > > 
> > > 	Author: Jeff
> > >         King
> > >         Email: peff@peff.net
> > > 
> > > ;-)
> > 
> > Heh, yeah. That is another reason to clean up and sanitize as much as
> > possible before stuffing it into another text format that will be
> > parsed.
> 
> A quoted string cannot contain newlines according to the RFC, so I think
> we don't need to care about that.

I wondered how we handled something like:

  From: =?UTF-8?q?J=0Aff=20King?= <peff@peff.net>

which sticks a newline into the middle of the buffer. We do decode it
that way, but eventually call cleanup_space() which converts a run of 1
or more isspace() characters into a single space (0x20). So you end up
with:

  Author: J ff King

which is probably reasonable.

> Makes sense, the current itteration of my patch already strips exterior
> quotes, no matter where they happen.
> 
> I will send a patch soon.

Great. Thanks for working on this.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-15  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-12 20:10 git-am includes escape characters from 'From' field Swift Geek
2016-09-13 15:26 ` Jeff King
2016-09-13 23:46   ` [RFC 0/1] de-quote quoted-strings in mailinfo Kevin Daudt
2016-09-13 23:46     ` [RFC 0/1] mailinfo: de-quote quoted-pair in header fields Kevin Daudt
2016-09-14  0:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-14  4:58         ` Kevin Daudt
2016-09-14  5:09         ` Jeff King
2016-09-14  5:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-14 16:03             ` Kevin Daudt
2016-09-14 17:43               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-14 19:17                 ` Jeff King
2016-09-14 19:30                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-14 19:38                     ` Jeff King
2016-09-15  5:15                       ` Kevin Daudt
2016-09-15  7:18                         ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-09-14  5:13       ` Jeff King

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