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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.4 01/12] qmp: Fix design bug and read beyo

From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.4 01/12] qmp: Fix design bug and read beyond buffer in memchar-write
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 13:30:03 +0000 
On 6 February 2013 09:06, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> As far as I can tell, it never fails, but silently ignores characters
> outside the alphabet [A-Za-z0-9+/]

This bit at least is required behaviour: see RFC2045 section 6.8:

   Any characters outside of the base64 alphabet are to be ignored in
   base64-encoded data.

(thanks to Tony Finch for pointing that one out to me.)

-- PMM
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