[EAI] Re: "7. Upgrading downgraded header" (Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-eai-downgrade-03.txt)

[Kari Hurtta <hurtta+gmane at siilo.fmi.fi>]

"Charles Lindsey" <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes in gmane.ietf.ima:

> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:18:25 -0000, Kari Hurtta
> <hurtta+gmane at siilo.fmi.fi> wrote:
> 

> > | o  If each mail header has [RFC2047] encoded part and which encoding
> > |      is "UTF-8", it may be a downgraded header, so decode it.
> >
> > That algorithm not necessary produce original result.
> 
> What differences can arise? I can see that folding may get changed,
> and  whitespace may get mucked about, but is there anything else?
> 
> Changes of folding should be acceptable (and will even lead to correct
> DKIM signature interpretation is the 'relaxed' canonicalization is
> used).

Also header field is not necessarly downgraded header field.

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/ Kari Hurtta


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