I have been getting reports of a MIME implementation which generate headers
such as
Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; boundary=-----12/01/92-14:05:26-----
It is important to realize that although this is a valid boundary delimiter,
this header line is INVALID and a correct MIME parser WILL NOT parse it.
According to the MIME grammar, the slash (/) character is one of the tspecials
(token specials) which MUST be quoted inside a MIME header. Thus the proper
form of the above header is:
Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; boundary="-----12/01/92-14:05:26-----"
The actual delimiters are unquoted, e.g.:
leader
-------12/01/92-14:05:26-----
stuff
-------12/01/92-14:05:26-------
trailer
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read the MIME grammar carefully.
-- Mark --