300069 - long header lines are not folded - violates rfc2047 (RfC 2047)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Alexander Skwar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

rfc2047 states:

|   While there is no limit to the length of a multiple-line header
|   field, each line of a header field that contains one or more
|   'encoded-word's is limited to 76 characters.

As can be seen in <news:[e-mail]> (attached),
the User-Agent and X-Accept-Language header lines violate this rule.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050317 Thunderbird/1.0.2 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104
X-Accept-Language:
de-de,de;q=0.9,de-at;q=0.7,de-ch;q=0.6,de-lu;q=0.4,de-li;q=0.3,en;q=0.1


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Alexander Skwar]

Attachment: Article with too long header lines (user-agent, x-accept-language)

As written in the report, this article shows that Tb creates articles which
violate RfC 2047. Have a look at User-Agent & X-Accept-Language.

Comment 2

[Karsten Düsterloh]

RfC 2047 says also:
|   Generally, an "encoded-word" is a sequence of printable ASCII
|   characters that begins with "=?", ends with "?=", and has two "?"s in
|   between.  It specifies a character set and an encoding method, and
|   also includes the original text encoded as graphic ASCII characters,
|   according to the rules for that encoding method.

Where do you see encoded words in your example?

Comment 3

[Alexander Skwar]

No where. You're right.

Sorry about that.