ietf-nntp LISTGROUP can't return 412

greg andruk gja at meowing.net
Thu Jul 5 20:16:21 PDT 2001


On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:13:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, caught this later, sorry for adding to the confusion.  An nnrpd
derived from 1.7 works as you describe above, and an nntpd based on ref.
1.5.12 k0dez returns

 listgroup
 412 You are not currently in a newsgroup.
 listgroup meow.general
 211 0 0 0 meow.general
 .

> I'll go back and fix it in INN.

Me too.  I'll also point a copy of 1.5.12 at a live spool to compare with
some of the other discrepancies you noted.



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