ietf-nntp HDR replacement text

[Russ Allbery]

Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "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.

I'm not sure I understand:  You're saying that the current XHDR behavior
is broken in this regard?

The above is essentially what XHDR does now.  XHDR doesn't distinguish
between nonexistent articles and present articles that don't have that
header.

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