ietf-nntp Zero-argument ARTICLE and missing articles

[Russ Allbery]

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

>> This isn't, however, what INN does; since version 1.0, INN has always
>> instead started to advance the current article pointer if the current
>> article didn't exist, continuing until it found a valid article (which
>> it would then return) or until the current article pointer reached the
>> high water mark.

> We must have wanted to forbid that behaviour, given the wording used.

Okay, I'll change INN.

>> I don't know if any reader could be relying on INN's behavior and be
>> unable to handle a 423 response to a zero-argument ARTICLE command.

> What does INN return if the pointer reaches the HWM ? Presumably 423. So
> the client needs to handle that case anyway.

Good point.

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