ietf-nntp HDR

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Mon Jan 7 01:50:54 PST 2002


Ade Lovett said:
> You are falling into the classic trap of working around something that needs
> to be addressed elsewhere, namely in the posting of articles, where it
> should simply state that the server MUST ignore the client-supplied Lines:
> header (on POST) and generate its own (accurate) header.

How do you ensure that servers don't get this wrong either ?

If people need a valid line count, it should be generated at the point they
need it.

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