ietf-nntp RFC977bis w.r.t. authentication

[Brian Hernacki]

Larry Osterman (Exchange) wrote:
> 
> I can state what both of the Microsoft servers do, that behavior is
> reflected in the text I sent the other day.  I can't speak for what Netscape
> does, since I've not actually observed their protocol exchanges (BHERN, care
> to comment?), however I suspect that they do something similar.  The
> Microsoft clients and servers both encapsulate the authentication traffic by
> Base64 encoding the data and transmitting it over NNTP - which is correct
> within the terms of SASL.

I'm not sure where folks got the notion we were using AUTHINFO GENERIC
(yet). The current revisions (3.x) of Collabra do not support authinfo
generic. I'd planned to add support for this (SASL-like) in 4.x.

--brian
Opinions are mine, not Netscape's