Re: Web Content Compression FAQ - update

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Stas Bekman <stas@xxxxxx.xxx> writes:

> Scott Gifford wrote:
>> Slava Bizyayev <sbizyaye@xxxxxxx.xxx> writes:

[...]

>>>Strangely... There is no '>' in my original. Neither I find in
>>>attachment that I sent...
>> That's a standard mangling required by the Unix mbox format; new
>> messages are signaled by a line beginning with "From ", so any lines
>> that really do begin with "From " have to be escaped, usually by a >
>> character.  It's best to just try to pretend you don't notice.  :)
>
> It doesn't make sense for attachments though.

The Unix mbox format was invented before MIME, and applies to anything
in a mailbox.  Your POD file was attached as text/plain, so didn't
have any encoding that would have stopped a literal "From " at the
beginning of the line.

I'm not arguing that it's a good format, just explaining how it works.

> And an unescaped > in pod is an error.

Yup.  I'm just explaining why the > probably showed up.

----ScottG.