Re: 404 on message-ID with slashes

> On 15 Jan 2021, at 13:30, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 1:25 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>>
>> Trying to load the last message in https://commitfest.postgresql.org/31/2858/ I
>> ran into an unexpected 404 which, it seems, is due to a message-id with
>> slashes: X//bJ6HKQJWx1wxA(at)paquier(dot)xyz
>>
>> Is this a known problem?
>
> Alvaro mentioned it yesterday, but that's the first I've heard of it
> (and AFAIK with the exact same message-id). A quick look showed it
> wasn't dead obvious what the problem was, but I haven't had time to
> dig into it anymore. Alvaro disappeared out of the discussion, so I'm
> not sure if he's had time to look anythign more beyond that either.

From a quick skim, RFC 1036 a slash is an allowed (but discouraged) character
in a message-id and the obsoleting RFC (5322) support that. I would expect
message-id generators to avoid using slashes though so I wouldn't be surprised
if it's quite rate.

cheers ./daniel