ietf-nntp OVER extension

[Charles Lindsey]

In <20020702125748.GA70726 at demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:


>  OVER [range]
>$ OVER <message-id>

>  The OVER command returns the contents of the headers and metadata in
>  the database for the article(s) specified from the current selected
                                                      ^^^^^^^
						      currently
>  group.


>  If no argument is specified, then information from the current article
>  is displayed. Successful responses start with a 224 response followed
>  by the overview information for all matched messages. This is a multiline
>  response with one line per article. A 412 error response is returned if
>  no newsgroup is currently selected and a 420 error response if no article
>  is selected in the current newsgroup. A 423 error response is returned if
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

but not if the $ features (message-id) are included

>  there are no articles in the indicated range.

>  For a successful response, the returned information consists of one line
>  per article, sorted in numerical order of article number. Each line
>  consists of a number of fields separated by an US-ASCII TAB character.
>  A field may be empty (in which case there will be two adjacent US-ASCII
>  TABs), and a sequence of trailing US-ASCII TABs may be omitted.


>  For the five mandatory headers, the content of each field MUST be
>  based on the original header with the header name and following colon
>  and space removed. If the article does not contain that header, or if
       ^^^^^
       whitespace

Is that right? There might be several spaces plus the odd TAB.

>  there is nothing following the colon and space, the field MUST be
                                            ^^^^^
					    whitespace
>  empty. For the two mandatory metadata items, the content of the field
>  MUST be just the value, with no other text.

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