ietf-nntp RFC977bis w.r.t. authentication

[Larry Osterman (Exchange)]

Ok, no big deal then.

But you had better put LOTS of words in there to explain that the
authentication stream may contain ANY character - including NUL characters
and CR/LF combinations.  Also you need to describe how to encapsulate
variable length authentication data.

My personal take is to say that the data is encoded using base64 the data
and it's CRLF terminated.  It's a LOT easier, and less likely to break
servers.

Larry Osterman
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-----Original Message-----
From: sob at academ.com [mailto:sob at academ.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 4:11 PM
To: Larry Osterman (Exchange); 'Chris Lewis'; ietf-nntp at academ.com
Subject: RE: ietf-nntp RFC977bis w.r.t. authentication


NNTP isn't 7 bit in this version.

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