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wrong end of header pattern?

From: John Rosauer (04021@xyz.molar.is)
Date: Mán 12 Feb 2001 - 00:57:52 UTC

Hi,

I encountered a problem created by a mail message having a header
where the Subject: field was over two lines but the second line
consisted only of white space. For example:

Subject: email subject over two lines with the 2nd anly white space
          
Date: ....

This caused the sanitiser to think the headers ended after the
Subject: causing obvious problems.

I thought the end of headers was indicated by an empty line,
rather than a white space filled line, so in MIMEStream.pm I
changed:

< while (($line !~ /^\s*$/) && (length($rawheader) < 64000)) 

---
>       while (($line !~ /^$/) && (length($rawheader) < 64000))

and it fixed the problem.

Of course, the problem manifests if any header field has this property,
not just Subject.

Please let me know if I have fixed it the wrong way.

best regards,
john
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