Re: Deal with <>s in message IDs

On 10/31/14, 6:11 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 10/30/14, 7:19 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>
>>> > I'm not really sure this really belongs in the archives app. We could
>>> > just have the commitfest app remove them on input.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Oh, now I get it. Yeah, based on that it does sound like the wrong place
>>> to fix it. Though if it's easy enough it might be worth doing for
>>> convenience. I'll see if there's some place to stick a regexp that can do it
>>> safely.
>>
>>
>> Yes, my original question was if we could basically do the same thing we're
>> doing now to handle /'s. See
>> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgarchives.git;a=blob;f=django/archives/urls.py;h=d524999dcca8a123b05c294c218d7d93977f4060;hb=HEAD#l28
>> (line 28) and
>> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgarchives.git;a=blob;f=django/archives/mailarchives/views.py;h=f6c401a6458ee16050fcd5837a33e848d3cb7644;hb=HEAD#l557
>> (line 557).
>
> Thats actually something different - that deals with the training
> slash sometimes added by django, and is done for cache limitation.
> Slashes *in* messageids is independent of that. That's why I
> misunderstood you :)
>
> That doesn't mean it's not possible to work around it of course. We
> have a grand total of 6 messages in our archives that have < or > in
> the messageid, but as long as we only eat one of them, and only at
> beginning or end, it should be safe.

Were you going to take a stab at it or do you want me to? I don't know that I'd be able to test whatever I come up with...
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