ietf-nntp Streaming

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Wed May 2 05:57:46 PDT 2001


Russ Allbery said:
> 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.

If we're going to have per-command pro-formas (which I like), then you're
probably right.

However, I still think we should distinguish "can't stream because it makes
no sense" from "can't stream because the server end could have problems";
this can be done in the explanations, though.

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