ietf-nntp HDR replacement text

Andrew Gierth andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk
Tue Jul 2 22:25:48 PDT 2002


>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

 Russ>   If the requested header is present but empty in a given
 Russ>   article, a line for that article is included in the output
 Russ>   but the header content portion of the line is empty.  If the
 Russ>   requested header is not present in a given article, no line
 Russ>   for that article is given in the output.  An empty response
 Russ>   is therefore valid, indicating that the requested header is
 Russ>   not present in any of the specified articles.

Um. No. Not good, because it confuses the case where a header is
missing with the case where the entire article is missing.

-- 
Andrew.



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