New NNTP extensions in INN 1.5?
James A. Brister
brister at vix.com
Mon Jul 15 09:28:33 PDT 1996
On Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:45:34 -0400 (EDT) Paul Southworth wrote:
> The ietf-nntp discussion group is open to the INN 1.5 developers, and I
> think you can count on the fact that they know about it.
True.
inn 1.5 will be adding the XBATCH command which lets the server
take in compressed rnews-ready batches. A rough description is:
XBATCH nnn
The XBATCH command instructs the server that the client has an
batch of articles to be sent and the batch is nnn bytes long.
If the server wishes the batch to be
sent then it will return a response instructing the client to do
so. If the server doesn't want the batch to be sent (if the server
is a slave server, for example), then a response indicating that
will be sent.
If transmission of the batch is requested, then the client should
send the batch in binary mode--that is no LF->CR-LF translation
must be done and no terminating 'CR-LF.CR-LF' is used to to
terminate the batch.
The format of the batch is identical to what rnews(1) expects to
process.
Responses:
239 batch transferred successfully
339 send batch to be transferred
436 xbatch failed: reason
501 xbatch: invalid or missing size.
inn 1.5 rnews adds recognition of gzip compression to batches.
James
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