ietf-nntp LISTGROUP can't return 412

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Jul 5 18:13:02 PDT 2001


Russ Allbery <rra at Stanford.EDU> writes:

> Ah!  I missed that.  I vote making the newsgroup parameter required
> rather than adding the new functionality; the client can always do a
> LISTGROUP of the current group to get that functionality (and INN at
> least already optimizes that operation).

I take this back.  The draft is right; INN handled this correctly (apart
from returning the wrong error code on LISTGROUP without a current group
-- INN returned 481 rather than 412) up until INN 2.3 and we broke it in
INN 2.3.

I'll go back and fix it in INN.

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



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