ietf-nntp Streaming

[Russ Allbery]

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

> This is different to the other three.

> With IHAVE and POST you don't need to say anything special, because the
> programmer will have to deal with this issue. At most you add a note.
> With the other three we're making it a specific restriction on the
> commands that isn't based on the protocol itself.

It's true that anyone who thinks about it for a moment won't stream IHAVE
or POST, but nonetheless they do have the same restriction, and I don't
think there's anything lost by being explicit and not making people derive
that information.  (Invariably, someone won't think it through before
trying to deploy code.)

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