ietf-nntp HDR

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Jan 4 20:09:01 PST 2002


Ade Lovett <ade at lovett.com> writes:

> No.  You don't.  HDR should be intrinsically linked to LIST
> OVERVIEW.FMT, we are providing this short-form command (HDR) to get
> individual items that make more sense that getting the entire header
> (HEAD) and grabbing the bits you need.

If you want overview information, you can use OVER.

XHDR was not linked to overview in most implementations, only in some.  I
don't see a reason to unnecessarily limit HDR compared XHDR.

> A quick rewrite saying that before HDR can be used, a LIST OVERVIEW.FMT
> MUST be carried out, and the client SHOULD be ready to work around
> issues if the list of headers isn't what it wants (via HEAD) would clear
> the whole mess up considerably.

This would no longer represent a standardization of XHDR, however.

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



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