-/* add trailing semicolon: I'm not sure if this is actually needed */
-hdr = pdkim_headcat(&col, hdr, &hdr_size, &hdr_len, NULL, US";", US"");
+ /* add trailing semicolon: I'm not sure if this is actually needed */
+ hdr = pdkim_headcat(&col, hdr, &hdr_size, &hdr_len, NULL, US";", US"");
+ }
+else
+ {
+ /* To satisfy the rule "all surrounding whitespace [...] deleted"
+ ( RFC 6376 section 3.7 ) we ensure there is no whitespace here. Otherwise
+ the headcat routine could insert a linebreak which the relaxer would reduce
+ to a single space preceding the terminating semicolon, resulting in an
+ incorrect header-hash. */
+ hdr = pdkim_headcat(&col, hdr, &hdr_size, &hdr_len, US";", US"b=;", US"");
+ }