ietf-nntp Streaming

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue May 1 12:20:03 PDT 2001


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

>> It's true that anyone who thinks about it for a moment won't stream
>> IHAVE or POST, but nonetheless they do have the same restriction, and I
>> don't think there's anything lost by being explicit and not making
>> people derive that information.  (Invariably, someone won't think it
>> through before trying to deploy code.)

> True, but it should be in a note rather than normative text, I think.

I don't see why, but I favor the approach of listing, for each header,
whether or not it can be streamed.  If one does that, then one has to fill
out that blank for IHAVE and POST, and the answer is obviously no.

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



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