character case is not ignored as it should be for access-type identifiers

Yoichi NAKAYAMA yoichi at geiin.org
Tue Jun 20 11:09:07 JST 2006


Dear SEMI developers,

At Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:14:10 -0400,
Greg A. Woods wrote:
> It seems character case is not ignored as it should be for access-type
> identifiers.
> 
> For example Pressing 'v' on a MIME part with the following headers fails
> to find the right method and instead just asks "Do you want to save
> current entity to disk?":
> 
> 	--Multipart_Sun_Jun_18_19:31:01_2006-1
> 	Content-Type: message/external-body;
> 		access-type=URL;
> 		URL="http://www.weird.com/~woods/"
> 	
> 	Content-Type: text/html
> 
> 
> RFC 2046 says:
> 
> 5.2.3.1.  General External-Body Parameters
> 
>    The parameters that may be used with any "message/external- body"
>    are:
> 
>     (1)   ACCESS-TYPE -- A word indicating the supported access
>           mechanism by which the file or data may be obtained.
>           This word is not case sensitive.  Values include, but
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>           are not limited to, "FTP", "ANON-FTP", "TFTP", "LOCAL-
>           FILE", and "MAIL-SERVER".  Future values, except for
>           experimental values beginning with "X-", must be
>           registered with IANA, as described in RFC 2048.
>           This parameter is unconditionally mandatory and MUST be
>           present on EVERY "message/external-body".
> 

It seems to be a problem in SEMI. Following patch
will fix this but it may have some side effect.

Regards,
-- 
Yoichi NAKAYAMA
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