#11401: handle headers with no value.
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+- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
+  relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
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 - Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
   which was a regression relative to Python2.  Unlike Python2, the last line
   of the folded body now ends with a carriage return.