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Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap
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Alain Magloire |
Subject: |
Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:55:25 -0400 (EDT) |
>
> Quoting Alain Magloire <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> > > It *should* allow the password as in the other URLs, ftp, http,
> > > etc., now you have to invent another syntax for fully specifying
> > > the resource, and note that Mutt's mechanism is not general
> > > enough, you have no way to specify which imap url the password
> > > is associated with.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the rationale and the wording of the RFCs
> > were very clear. But I certainly understand the point you
> > are making and feel the same way. So if you are proposing
> > to allow in the URL passwd as an extension, I'm all for it
> > if it does not break severly the current semantics in the
> > RFCs.
>
> I don't think it changes anything, unless you have a colon
> in your user name,
Actually, I do not think is possible to have colon in
usernames on Unix systems, /etc/passwd is a separated colon fields ...
>
> Yes, I noticed that there isn't a general syntax, but I think it's
> close enough for the our purposes. I do a little checking after,
> for instance pop checks that no path or query was specified after
> the hostname. I think it's backwards compatible.
Ok. I vaguely remember something like that in the original url parser
ofr pop:// but IIRC it was to catch this:
pop://address@hidden/
The parser would have put "qnx.com/" in the hostname field. Since
pop URL does not have any query/paths it was easier to nuke the trailing
junk.
>
> > > I'm cleaning up the docs to match the new API before committing. But
> >
> > Wow!
>
> And forgot the example .texi this morning, sorry!
*cough* ... *cough* and some ChangeLog entries?
Funny, you are the only programmer I know that takes the time to document
things, but somehow manage to skip the ChangeLogs 8-).
Thanks for taking a stab at this.
--
alain
- I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Sam Roberts, 2001/07/12
- Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo, 2001/07/13
- Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Alain Magloire, 2001/07/16
- Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Sam Roberts, 2001/07/18
- Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Alain Magloire, 2001/07/18
- Message not available
- Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Sam Roberts, 2001/07/19
- Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Alain Magloire, 2001/07/19
- Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo, 2001/07/19
- Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Sam Roberts, 2001/07/19
- Re: I want to add non-RFC passwd to pop and imap, Alain Magloire, 2001/07/23