ietf-nntp HDR replacement text
Andrew Gierth
andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk
Tue Jul 2 22:25:48 PDT 2002
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
Russ> If the requested header is present but empty in a given
Russ> article, a line for that article is included in the output
Russ> but the header content portion of the line is empty. If the
Russ> requested header is not present in a given article, no line
Russ> for that article is given in the output. An empty response
Russ> is therefore valid, indicating that the requested header is
Russ> not present in any of the specified articles.
Um. No. Not good, because it confuses the case where a header is
missing with the case where the entire article is missing.
--
Andrew.
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