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From: Nils Breunese <N.Breunese@vpro.nl>
To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" <user@couchdb.apache.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:00:48 +0100
Subject: Re: Epilogue area in MIME multipart_related docs is not ignored
Thread-Topic: Epilogue area in MIME multipart_related docs is not ignored
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Peter Keller wrote:

> When PUTting a document with attachments in MIME multipart/related format=
, CouchDB (1.2.0 on Mac OS X) throws a badmatch error in doc_from_multi_par=
t_stream() if any bytes are following the final boundary.
>=20
> For example, if the last body part ends with
>=20
> \r\n=3D=3D1234=3D=3D\r\nabc
>=20
> the error reads
>=20
> [error] [emulator] Error in process <0.18266.with exit value: {{badmatch,=
{<<7 bytes>>, #Fun<couch_httpd_db.23.117176975>,ok}},[{couch_doc,'-doc_from=
_multi_part_stream/2-fun-1-',3,[{file,"/Users/hs/prj/build-couchdb/dependen=
cies/couchdb/src/couchdb/couch_doc.erl"},{line,512}]}]}
>=20
> where <<7 bytes>> is 2 + the number of bytes following the two ending hyp=
hens (5 in this example). Everything works fine if the last body part ends =
with two hyphens only (i.e. the epilogue is left blank).
>=20
> However, according to RFC 1521 Sec. 7.2.1 (<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/r=
fc1341/7_2_Multipart.html>), "implementations should ignore anything that a=
ppears before the first boundary or after the last one".

I'd open a bug report: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CouchDB

Nils.