[Patches] [ python-Patches-597593 ] tiptoe around broken Content-type

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Patches item #597593, was opened at 2002-08-20 00:10
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Category: Library (Lib)
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Summary: tiptoe around broken Content-type

Initial Comment:
I have absolutely no idea how common this might be or whether it is 
correct or not, but I encountered a mail message today with this 
Content-type header:

    Content-type: text

The email.Generator.Generator class barfs trying to split the content 
type:

       main, sub = ctype.split('/')

The attached patch solves this particular problem.  I don't know if it 
falls into the "be relaxed in what you accept"  rubric or not, but the 
attached patch got me by this particular bump.

Skip


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>Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-08-20 10:47

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Patches applied to cvs.

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Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-08-20 09:12

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RFC 2045, section 5.2 states that syntactically invalid
Content-Type: headers should use the text/plain default. 
Thanks for pointing out this bug, I'll work out a more
thorough fix.

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