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Author tony_nelson
Recipients jasonjwwilliams, tony_nelson
Date 2009-04-02.22:09:18
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Postel's law suggests that, as bad padding can be repaired,
decode_header ought to do so.  The patch does that, adds a test for it,
and alters another test to still properly fail on really bad encoded data.

The test doesn't check a single character encoded string, as such does
not specify a complete octet and I felt that base64 decoders might
reasonably differ on what to do then.

The issue exists in Python2.6.1 (where I made it) and trunk.
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