ietf-nntp HDR

[Ade Lovett]

On 01/04/02 22:09, "Russ Allbery" <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
> XHDR was not linked to overview in most implementations, only in some.
> don't see a reason to unnecessarily limit HDR compared XHDR.

Well, welcome to the Real World [tm] outside of Usenet Academia.  Sorry, but
I'm not going to listen to those that have absolutely no comprehension of
even the tiniest part of scaling.  You want HDR to work outside over
"overview" headers, cool.  It ain't happening.  Deal with it.  You want to
get to X-Bongo-Header, used HEAD and grab the entire article header like it
was intended in the first place.  NOV was just supposed to be a subset of
information that was most likely required for indexing.

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 This would no longer represent a standardization of XHDR, however.

In the standards world, an X-command is effectively undefined.  It cannot
therefor be standardized, rendering your point moot.

-aDe