From: Steve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:49:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: imap: Added clarification to the code about odd continuation responses
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_33_0~30
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=09a13a1c0109c799abe66e4f89ad1a9d642a64de;p=curl

imap: Added clarification to the code about odd continuation responses
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diff --git a/lib/imap.c b/lib/imap.c
index 5d3a1a17e..9a845102a 100644
--- a/lib/imap.c
+++ b/lib/imap.c
@@ -336,7 +336,10 @@ static bool imap_endofresp(struct connectdata *conn, char *line, size_t len,
     return TRUE;
   }
 
-  /* Do we have a continuation response? */
+  /* Do we have a continuation response? This should be a + symbol followed by
+     a space and optionally some text as per RFC-3501 for the AUTHENTICATE and
+     APPEND commands and as outlined in Section 4. Examples of RFC-4959 but
+     some e-mail servers ignore this and only send a single + instead. */
   if((len == 3 && !memcmp("+", line, 1)) ||
      (len >= 2 && !memcmp("+ ", line, 2))) {
     switch(imapc->state) {