I want to understand exactly where FWS and comments may occur under RFC
2231 parameters, so that I may describe it correctly in Usefor.
In the following, '()' represents a position where whitespace, folding
or comments may occur (i.e. CFWS in RFC 2822 terminology).
So, prior to 2231, a parameter can be
()token()=()token()
or ()token()=()"quoted-string"()
Under 2231, we can also have an asterisk, possibly followed by DIGITS,
between the token and the '='. So are they to be considerd as an
appendage to the token, or as a prependage to the "=" or, IOW, where may
I put () amongst them? RFC 2231 is not at all clear on this. The "worst
case" scenario would allow:
()token()*()0()=()........
Is that correct, and if not what is?
Also, I presume that the charset and language form can have () before
and after, but nowhere in the middle, as in
....=()us-ascii'en_US'foo%20bar()
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