[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-02.txt
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Mon Oct 4 12:35:04 PDT 2004
Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Proposed change:
> If the server has to terminate the connection for some reason, it
> MUST give a 400 response code to the next command and then immediately
> + close the TCP connection. Following a 400 response, clients SHOULD
> + NOT simply reconnect immediately and retry the same actions. Rather,
> + a client SHOULD either use an exponentially increasing delay between
> + retries (e.g. double the waiting time after each 400 response) or
> + present any associated text to the user for them to decide whether and
> + when to retry.
This sounds fine to me.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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