ietf-nntp Multiline Response failure?

[Andrew Gierth]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Roberts <troberts at bigfoot.com> writes:

 Tim> Another point that I think is not addressed is when a multiline
 Tim> response fails in the middle of the response.

 Tim> Example: lets say the newsserver is responding to a BODY request
 Tim> and is sending the lines as it's reading them.  If halfway
 Tim> through the response, a disk error occurs.  How should a server
 Tim> handle this

IMO, close or abort the connection without ending the article

 Tim> and what should a reader check for?

 Tim> Should it immediately send a ".CRLF" to end the body

absolutely not - this amounts to corrupting the article, something
which should be avoided at all costs.

-- 
Andrew.