ietf-822
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: empty quoted strings and other oddities

2002-10-04 07:46:57

second, your conclusion doesn't follow even if
it is a boundary condition - all that is necessary is that it not cause
any problems.

An MTA or MUA that does not handle [] well may indeed cause
problems.

sure, but the same is true of an MTA or MUA that doesn't handle
any invalid address well.  on the other hand, passing the "" 
within the [] to inet_aton() should return an error code for invalid
address,  just as for any other invalid address.  if that's not the
case, the problem is in the system library, not the MTA or MUA.