Another MIME decoder improvement, and script tags

[Fadotek Solutions, LLC]

Absolutely squash them!

Thanks,

Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From:     Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Sent:     Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:07:16 +0000
To:       MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject:  Another MIME decoder improvement, and script tags

For those of you who like to keep bang up to date on all these issues, I
have made another improvement to the MIME decoder which catches more rogue
MIME structures.

Please apply this to Message.pm:

-----SNIP-----
--- Message.pm.old 2004-03-08 18:35:44.000000000 +0000
+++ Message.pm 2004-03-09 10:01:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@
        last unless defined $line;
        $nextpos += length $line;
        # Must have 2 lines of header
-      if ($prevline =~ /^[^:]+: / && $line =~ /(^\s+)|(^[^:]+ )|(^\s+.*=)/) {
+      if ($prevline =~ /^[^:\s]+: / && $line =~ /(^\s+)|(^[^:]+
)|(^\s+.*=)/) {
          #print STDERR "Found header start at \"$prevline\"\n and
\"$line\"\n";
          $foundheader = 1;
          last;
@@ -1333,7 +1333,9 @@
      }

      # Rewind to the start of the header
-    $file->setpos($prevpos);
+    #$file->setpos($prevpos);
+    seek $file, $prevpos, 0;
+    #print STDERR "First line is \"" . <$file> . "\"\n";

      # Setup everything for the MIME parser
      my $parser = MIME::Parser->new;
-----SNIP-----

I don't think this is urgent enough to warrant release now, it can go into
the pot for the next one.

While I'm here, how many of you would like me to squash <script> tags in
HTML messages?
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