ietf-nntp Proposed new HDR text

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Apr 5 21:17:27 PST 2002


Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> Well the proper way to do it would be to have a LIST HDR.FMT command
> similar to the LIST OVERVIEW.FMT command.

Yes, I think that was Andrew's proposal.  Someone could feel free to write
something like that up, although it may be something that would be better
done after we get this document out.

> But if you want to do it the "try it and see" way, then it would be good
> to have a special return code meaning "sorry, we don't do that HDR, but
> feel free to try other headers".

503 isn't going to mean much else.

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



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