Re: content-type: text/plain; magic=on; magic=off

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From: "Arnt Gulbrandsen" <arnt <at> gulbrandsen.priv.no>
To: <ietf-822 <at> imc.org>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 6:45 AM
Subject: content-type: text/plain; magic=on; magic=off

>
> Hi,
>
> if a message has the content-type field mentioned in the subject, which
> seems valid as far as I can tell, then which setting wins? Should a
> compliant mail reader enable or disable magic while reading such a
> message?

In my view, it would depend on the parsing logic by the mail reader.

In general programming, you would normally see two types of methods:

1) Keyword searching,
2) Parsing of the each part.

In keyword searching, a string lookup for "magic=" might be done.  In this
case, the first magic is found.  So for #1, the result would be magic=on.
I wouldn't expect it to look for "magic" again.

For #2, it reads each part.  As it parses, it sees  magic and sets a
boolean, then it continues and sees magic again.

Well, what happens next probably depends on many specifics, but in general,