ietf-nntp Implementation-specific language in IHAVE description

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Jul 5 15:46:17 PDT 2001


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

> Agreed.

> The traditional split between POST and IHAVE is what Usefor call
> injecting and relay agents, and it might be worth saying that. However,
> is there any actual requirement that a server treat them differently ? 
> Do we want to say that a server MAY treat IHAVE as POST if it wants ?

There are issues outside the scope of the NNTP standard that indicate that
would be a bad idea (for example, one should not provide a missing Date or
Message-ID header on IHAVE, but one has to be prepared to do so on POST).

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



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