ietf-nntp PAT questions
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon Aug 7 08:36:09 PDT 2000
> 9.5.3.1 PAT
>
> PAT header range|<message-id> [wildmat[ wildmat...]]
>
> The PAT command is used to retrieve specific headers from
> specific articles in the currently selected group, based on
> pattern matching on the contents of the header.
>
> The required header parameter is the name of a header line
> (e.g. "subject") in a news group article. See RFC-1036 for a
> list of valid header lines.
What does this last sentence mean ?
Is a server required to check for *any* header, so that nonsense headers
will simply produce an empty list. Or is the server allowed to give an
error response and, if so, what ?
Put another way, does that sentence mean:
- any header that is syntactically correct
- any header listed in 1036
- any header listed in 1036, plus any X header
or what ?
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