ietf-nntp Additional arguments
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Sun Mar 31 17:48:05 PST 2002
Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Section 4 reads in part:
> Commands ... MAY be followed by one or more arguments.
> Is it permitted, or is it an error, to provide more arguments than required
> by the command ? For example, given:
> GROUP misc.test demon.service
> which of the following applies ?
> (1) The server MUST give the 501 syntax error generic response.
I think the server MUST reject such commands with a syntax error. Even if
that's not existing practice for AUTHINFO, I think it's very much worth
doing. It's *mostly* existing practice, enough so that I highly doubt
there are any clients relying on the other behavior, and I think we should
clearly pick one approach.
> I would think that (1) applies, but I can find no wording to say so. If
> people agree, the best place to do this would be section 4.1.1:
> If there is a syntax error in the arguments of a recognised
> ! command, including the case where more arguments are provided
> ! than the command specifies,
> the response code 501 MUST be returned.
I agree with this change.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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