[NNTP] Re: AUTHINFO and STARTTLS interaction
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Wed Sep 29 23:14:13 PDT 2004
Russ Allbery said:
> First, STARTTLS requires that one discard all authentication information
> performed before STARTTLS happens, which means that if one authenticates
> and then runs STARTTLS, one ends up unauthenticated again. This is very
> counterintuitive.
Argh. You're right; that trumps my desire for uncoupled documents.
Leave the restriction in place.
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