[MERGE] Fix ability to use IIS as a dumb HTTP server. (fixes #247585)
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jul 14 19:04:29 BST 2008
Adrian Wilkins writes:
> The problem in the Python lib is that the rfc822.unquote() function
> considers <this> to be a quoted string, when the standard doesn't.
This is an evil hack indeed.
> rfc822.py:unquote() DOES treat angle brackets as quote characters, along
> with a note that their implementation isn't conforming to the standard.
> I think the standard lib clearly is wrong, and also knows it.
>
> {{{ python25\lib\rfc822.py:646
> # XXX Should fix unquote() and quote() to be really conformant.
> # XXX The inverses of the parse functions may also be useful.
>
>
> def unquote(s):
> """Remove quotes from a string."""
> if len(s) > 1:
> if s.startswith('"') and s.endswith('"'):
> return s[1:-1].replace('\\\\', '\\').replace('\\"', '"')
> if s.startswith('<') and s.endswith('>'):
> return s[1:-1]
> return s
>
> }}}
That's hideous. It will reduce '''"<this>"''' to '''this'''. What in
the world are they trying to do? Surely the intent of quoting in that
example is to protect the angle brackets from being stripped.
> Alas, tinkering with parts of the standard library is rather more risky
> than dealing with it further downstream, and rather less practical in
> terms of rapid resolution.
Well, (1) I know that Barry Warsaw wants the email library updated,
although I don't know how exactly how he feels about that being done
in the 2.6/3.0 release cycle; it is still possible, though. (2)
Mailman was distributed with a variant version of email for years, so
there's precedent for that. Threaten Barry with that happening to bzr
and you might get some fast action.<wink>
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