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Re: Charset compromise (Was Re: Character-set) header

1991-09-04 18:34:52
Mark writes:
Please explain to me what:
      Content-Type: MULTIPART;1-S;ABCDEFG
      Content-Charset: ISO-SLOBBOVIAN
means.  Don't forget to cover the fact that hyphen occupies a different place
in the Slobbovian character set than in US ASCII.  While you're at it, please
...

Actually, Mark, it is a little more serious than that if you really let 
a mildly paranoid imagination run wild.  Suppose that hyphen is in the
same position as ASCII, but that colon occupies a different position,
and that ISO-SLOBBOVIAN, being Slobbovian, also codes column 4, position
1ff as "GFEDCBA".  If someone forgets to ignore content-charset in the 
presence of MULTIPART, cookie-hunting could get *real* interesting.
  :-)
     --john

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