ietf-nntp AUTHINFO SASL protocol choices
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Thu Apr 4 14:02:30 PST 2002
Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
> That's not acceptable, at least for the first part of the exchange,
> because the client doesn't know that the command will succeed or even be
> recognised (_requiring_ the client to do LIST EXTENSIONS just forces the
> extra round-trip again).
Oh, that's an extremely good point. I hadn't thought of that.
Okay, yeah, it looks like we're back to allowing really long command
lines.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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