ietf-nntp AUTHINFO SASL protocol choices

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylhen0bh4x.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:


>Lawrence Greenfield <leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>> On the contrary, since the SASL exchange will require a line length of
>> greater than 85000 characters, it makes perfect sense to special case
>> the authentication command to do dynamic memory allocation up to 85k but
>> not allow other commands to create such memory demands.

>If some SASL mechanisms seriously require 85K of data, then I'm definitely
>opposed to putting the negotiation all on one line with the command.  Once
>you get up to that sort of data, it really needs to be sent the same way
>that posts are sent.

Absolutely so. I had no idea such long parameters were needed. I could
believe in a command line extended to 2048 octets, 8192 maybe, but things
of 85K sort of length go as multi-line stuff with dot stuffing, and all
that.

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