ietf-nntp Draft summary of IETF 48 meeting

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Aug 15 12:12:23 PDT 2000


Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> Can I suggest that it should do the same as ARTICLE et al do for the
> first parameter of the response ? That is, return article number when
> article numbers were given in the command, and return "0" when a message
> ID was given. After all, in this case you know what the ID was, and
> doing it this way simplifies the parsing of the result. It also means
> that a long message ID won't be a problem (the ID can be over 200
> characters long, after all).

> In other words, the response line(s) should always be a number followed
> by a space and then arbitrary text.

It's a change from existing practice in XPAT, but I don't have any
fundamental problem with that approach.

> I note that the header name isn't returned in the examples. Is that
> correct and desirable ?

Since you already know what header you're matching against, it wouldn't
seem to be necessary.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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