ietf-nntp HDR

[Russ Allbery]

Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>  Russ> There is a fourth option which we should consider, namely

>  Russ>   d) define HDR Lines and HDR Bytes to be special exceptions
>  Russ>   that return the overview information rather than article
>  Russ>   headers, thereby making the actual Lines: and Bytes: headers
>  Russ>   in the articles, if any, not retrievable by HDR.

> what about servers that don't have an overview? (I don't think diablo
> does, as I recall it stores the actual headers of the article in its
> index). These would have to work around the issue by "fixing" the
> Lines: header so that it showed the correct value.

They could return 503 for HDR requests for those headers.

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