ietf-nntp Section 7.1 - GREETING step.

[Charles Lindsey]

In <200007251708.KAA08690 at karoshi.ucsd.edu> Brian Kantor <brian at UCSD.Edu> writes:


>>If, as far as the server can determine at the point of connection,
>>neither IHAVE nor POST will be permitted during this session, the
>>server returns a 201 response. Otherwise it returns a 200 response.
>>Can everyone live with that ?

>No, I think this is seriously flawed.  If a server returns a 200
>but a subsequent POST fails, you've screwed the client.  201 indicates
>ONLY the usability of the POST command.

Well a logical solution would be to say
	200	you may only read
	201	you may POST
	202	you may IHAVE
	203	you may do BOTH

Given that in practical situations clients are usually either in the
reading business or in the relaying business, but rarely in both, what
current clients would actually get confused if servers suddenly started
behaving like that?

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