ietf-nntp NNTP AUTH draft

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Mon Nov 8 09:25:06 PST 1999


Hmmm. Let's ask the Alliance folks on the list if that's true. Surely, they
would not break their software so badly as to implement against an Internet
Draft.

Andrew Gierth wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "AG" == Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >>>>> "Stan" == Stan O Barber <sob at verio.net> writes:
> 
>  Stan> Why is that? If you code your server correctly, it can choose
>  Stan> to present 480 unless the client does a "LIST EXTENSIONS" and
>  Stan> then present a 450 after that, after all WHY should a client do
>  Stan> a "LIST EXTENSIONS" if it didn't plan to make use of the
>  Stan> extensions?
> 
>  AG> The AUTH draft specifically says that the client is not required
>  AG> to do LIST EXTENSTIONS.
> 
> Oh, and I believe there are existing clients (some versions of
> Netscape) that issue LIST EXTENSIONS but nevertheless would not cope
> with getting 450 rather than 480.
> 
> --
> Andrew.



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