[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-02
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Wed Oct 13 18:00:21 PDT 2004
Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Andrew - Supernews" <andrew at supernews.net> writes:
>
>
>>Maybe someone can come up with a specific circumstance where returning a
>>deferral would make sense, but so far I've been unable to think of one
>>(and none of my own implementations have ever done it). If it stays in
>>the draft, then (a) it specifically needs to be the 431 code rather than
>>a new one, and (b) it should be made clear that it's only appropriate if
>>the problem is a _transient_ problem affecting _only that specific
>>article_, and that more general failures should be handled by a
>>connection close.
>
>
> I think the argument in favor of it was mostly consistency, so I would
> lean towards mentioning use of the 400 code and an immediate connection
> close in response to TAKETHIS when the article can't be processed due to
> some error condition. (Yes, in theory, anyone should be able to realize
> they can do that given that 400 is documented in the base draft, but I bet
> people won't think of it unless we mention it explicitly.)
So I should remove 432 and go back to what we had?
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