280850 - yEnc headers in news articles corrupted upon download

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 119964

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

There is a relatively new encoding scheme for posting attachments in usenet
articles called "yEnc" (information can be found at http://www.yenc.org/).  When
downloading articles that have been yEnc encoded, the spacing in the headers
gets corrupted.  I never encountered this issue when downloading articles using
Netscape 4.79 which is why I am bothering to report this bug here.  An example
of a newsgroup that yEnc encoded articles can be found in is
"alt.binaries.games".  The header in the article as I receive it is:

=ybegin par   t=43line=128size=10614832name=BenW.vol036+27.PAR2

It should be:

=ybegin part=43 line=128 size=10614832 name=BenW.vol036+27.PAR2

This header corruption interferes with the decoding of the attachment in the
article.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a news article that has a yEnc encoded attachment.
2. Download the article.

Actual Results:  
The header in the downloaded article is corrupted.

Expected Results:  
The header should not get corrupted.

This corruption occurs on the majority of downloaded articles.

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119964 ***