Adding info to Python Buglist
Hrvoje Niksic
hniksic at srce.hr
Sat Oct 16 22:10:25 EDT 1999
Jason Trowbridge <ratman at nmt.edu> writes:
> *The RFC I'm talking about is RFC 1521.
Please note that rfc1521 has been obsoleted by rfc2045 *years* ago.
Base64 encoding is described in section 6.8.
Also, I'm not sure if ignoring invalid pad sequences is a good idea.
rfc2045 explicitly says that characters out of the base64 alphabet are
to be ignored. However, illegal padding is not mentioned.
I think it makes sense to raise an exception in that case.
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