Wed, 15 Feb 1995 01:32:29 -0500
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> I'm trying to do a put request to listserv, except after several tries
> Listserv keeps responding with "Invalid password..." After several
> attempts I started to wonder what Listserv thought I was trying and checked
> the logs. It seems that 2 characters are being inserted in front of my
> pw=xxmypasswd, where xx are the invalid characters.
... and those two characters are "3D"? Some mail-creating software,
notably Pine, will act funny if they detect any high-order characters in
the mail text you are trying to send. Pine will take all instances of
"=" and translate it to "=3D". (This will thus distort any "PW=" that
you need to send.) It will also insert "=20" before all end-of-line
carriage returns.
The solution is to either strip the mail text of all high-order
characters, or find some mailer other than Pine to use to PUT that
particular document.
-- Roger Burns [log in to unmask]
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