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Bug #63254 iconv_mime_encode() counts field name in the line-length limit
Submitted: 2012-10-10 14:32 UTC Modified: 2018-08-25 16:07 UTC
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From: narf at bofh dot bg Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: ICONV related
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Linux, Ubuntu
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-10-10 14:32 UTC] narf at bofh dot bg 
Description:
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RFC 2045 specifies that the line-length (an iconv_mime_encode() preference, default 76) applies to all characters in the header's BODY, excluding the CRLF.

iconv_mime_encode() however will count the header name (which it doesn't need to know btw) in it as well. So, if I for example want to create a Subject header, iconv_mime_encode() will effectively give its first line the limit of ...:

default length = 76
-
'Subject: ' length = 9
=
67 characters.

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 [2018-08-25 16:07 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2018-08-25 16:07 UTC] cmb@php.net 
RFC 2045[1] does not apply to iconv_mime_encode(), since the
function is about encoding MIME *headers*, but the RFC is about
message *bodies*.  Instead RFC 2047[2] is relevant for the
function, and it states in section 2:

| While there is no limit to the length of a multiple-line header
| field, each line of a header field that contains one or more
|'encoded-word's is limited to 76 characters.

So counting the field name length is sensible.
 
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