Re: MIME Mail parsing

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On Feb 20, 2008, at 11:31 AM, DarkGod wrote:

> > > I seem to remember somebody here asking for a mime parsing lib.
> > I did. Ended up writing my own :P
>
> Ah, so did I :)

We should start a club :))

> At first I did not understand why it was not correctly parsing my  
> test file.
> And then I realized I had it in unix line feeds instead of DOS ones.
> I know DOS ones are the standard but I made my parser specifically  
> ignore
> that because I need to understand the most possible number of mails  
> and yes
> sometimes I get some in unix line feeds.

Well... it's called 'network' EOL.

> Your lib seems to handle formdata while mine does not (truly rare to  
> receive
> a formdata encoded email I suppsoe ;> ) but it does not decode bodies.
> At least not my quoted-printable test with split long lines.

No content decoding is applied at the moment. Will take a look at your  
code though :)

> What do you use MIME parsing for in Nanoki?

To handle multipart/form-data:

http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/HTTP.lua#L183

> Anyway nice lib you've made, at least it is better documented than  
> mine ;>

Ha!

"Real programmers don't comment their code. If it is hard to write, it  
should be hard to understand."

Cheers,

PA.