ietf-nntp AUTHINFO SASL protocol choices

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Apr 4 13:09:50 PST 2002


Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:

> The reason for allowing an initial parameter is to avoid blowing a
> round-trip unnecessarily.

I'm not arguing for an extra round-trip, but rather immediate client send
of the data in multiline format, a la TAKETHIS.  In other words, I agree
with the command syntax; I just think that it's cleaner to send the auth
block as multiline data rather than as a command parameter.

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



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