Note about Manifest Header Names starting with "From"
Florian Weimer
fw at deneb.enyo.de
Thu Jan 2 21:08:10 UTC 2020
* Philipp Kunz:
> Hi,
>
> The Jar File Specification [1] states that,
>
>> Note: To prevent mangling of files sent via straight e-mail,
>> no header will start with the four letters "From".
>
> But I can't see that this is actually the case.
I think the problem are the five bytes "From " at the start of a line,
not just "From".
From-Field or something like that should indeed be fine.
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