ietf-nntp Proposed new HDR text

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Apr 5 21:18:36 PST 2002


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

> Well, respectable news headers aren't supposed to occur more than once.

> But to cover it, I thing your header draft should say that if a header
> occurs more than once, then you will get whichever the implementor deigns
> to give you. Or you might have a special response code.

> The same thing should be said in regard to the OVER command.

If we're going to take that approach, is there any reason not to just say
that it always returns the first one?  That's at least a bit more
predictable, and if it's an edge case no one's likely to care much.

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



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