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rsalz@d... (Rich Salz) writes: >What spec says linebreaks are not allowed in base64? RFC 2045, page 23: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt > These characters, identified in Table 1, below, are > selected so as to be universally representable, and the set excludes > characters with particular significance to SMTP (e.g., ".", CR, LF) > and to the multipart boundary delimiters defined in RFC 2046 (e.g., > "-"). On the other hand, page 25 says: >Any characters outside of the base64 alphabet are to be ignored in >base64-encoded data. So maybe there's a case for it. Or maybe they should use NEL instead of CRLF! -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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