ietf-nntp Timeout in a POST (or IHAVE) command

[Russ Allbery]

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

>>> There is the related problem of the server wanting to stop the transfer
>>> of an article from a client (having seen the first 15MB, and there being
>>> no indication that there is a further 15MB to follow ...). Currently,
>>> the only solution is to drop the connection, which is a bit drastic.

>> Why do you feel so?  It seems like an entirely reasonable approach to me.

> Because it looks like a modem failure or suchlike, so the client will
> just retry.

Mm, yeah, very good point.

> We need a way for a server to say "I'm always going to reject this.". I
> agree with Charles that this is not the time to address this in detail.

Agreed on both counts.

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