ietf-nntp Section 7.1 - GREETING step.

Andrew Gierth andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk
Mon Jul 24 12:00:01 PDT 2000


>>>>> "Stan" == Stan O Barber <sob at verio.net> writes:

 >> Also, I can't seem to find older mailing list archives -- why was
 >> the 502 on permission denied, changed to a 504?  That does not
 >> seem to mimic existing practice.

 Stan> See http://www.academ.com/academ/nntp/ietf/index.html for the
 Stan> archives.

This is an error in the draft, apparently introduced in wording
suggested by Clive Feather.

502 is the correct return code for permission denied, as per RFC977.

504 was introduced, bogusly, by INN as a "server too busy" error.

-- 
Andrew.



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