ietf-nntp MODE READER

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Wed Jul 19 01:05:28 PDT 2000


Russ Allbery said:
>> (2) If the server returns 400 or 504, must it close the connection
>> immediately ?
> 
> Existing practice in INN is yes.  I don't see any reason to allow anything
> different.  Can anyone think of a purpose to keeping a connection open
> once a 400 or 504 response has been sent?

I've just noticed that the initial connection returns 504 for service
unavailable, but other commands (including MODE READER) return 502. Is
this correct ?

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