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MIME boundary question

1995-02-09 09:02:15
Consider the following fragment:

multipart/mixed; boundary="outer"

--outer
multipart/mixed; boundary="outer-inner"

--outer-inner

stuff

--outer-inner--
--outer--

I have a vendor claiming that this is illegal because the "outer" appears
in the boundary "outer-inner", and thus violates the need for the
boundaries to be unique.  Their claim is in fact that "outer" must appear
NOWHERE in the body--not merely that "--outer<CRLF>" must not appear in the
body.

I think this is absolutely preposterous.  I think that the uniqueness
requirement means that the string "--outer<CRLF>" must not appear as body
contents, but that "--outer-inner<CRLF>" is perfectly OK (so far as the
outer multipart goes), and that the fragment above is therefore perfectly
ok.

What say you all?  Have I misread the RFC?  Has the other vendor?  Does the
RFC need to be clarified?

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Steve Dorner, Qualcomm Incorporated.  "Oog make mission statement."



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