Re: (Not-so) hypothetical question: What to do about NULs?

[Michael Richardson]

Ken Hornstein <kenh@pobox.com> wrote:
    > Right, but that's mostly because of the way multiline responses are
    > handled in POP.  It's never "read X bytes", it's "read lines until you
    > get a line that is just .\r\n".  With IMAP, it's "the next X bytes are
    > the data you asked for".  So you're used to dealing with "lines" and
    > that lends itself to C strings.

I assumed that the nuls we are concerned about are either inside the base64,
when it's a text/*, or are in the binary transfer when it's not base64.