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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