Re: SV: Base64 in MIME file...is really required?

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: "Hellan,Kim KHE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

khe> After you create the base 64 BIO, set the following flag,
khe> BIO_set_flags(b64, BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL);
khe> to parse the input without linefeed.
khe> 
khe> It doesn't seem to work. Basically what I have is:
khe> 
khe> 1: BIO* bioIndata = NULL;
khe> 2: BIO* spBio = BIO_new_file((char*) mySMIMEfile, "rb");
khe> 3: PKCS7* p7 = SMIME_read_PKCS7(spBio, &bioIndata); <--- FAILS
khe> 
khe> If I add the line
khe>    BIO_set_flags(spBIO, BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL);
khe> before line 3, it still fails.

Ah, there was a misunderstanding there, I see.  The BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL
control only works with the b64 BIO filter.  It seems like the SMIME
functions expect 64 character lines and that's the end of it.

Note, I haven't looked at the source yet, so I don't know what tweaks
there are.

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