ietf-nntp HDR replacement text
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Wed Jul 3 21:03:18 PDT 2002
Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
> Russ> I'm not sure I understand: You're saying that the current XHDR
> Russ> behavior is broken in this regard?
> Russ> The above is essentially what XHDR does now. XHDR doesn't
> Russ> distinguish between nonexistent articles and present articles
> Russ> that don't have that header.
> This does not agree with my observations or experiments. What server
> behaves in that way?
> Those servers I've tested produce no response line for articles that
> are missing, and an empty response (or the deprecated "(none)"
> response) where the article is present but the header is missing.
Ack. You're right. Mea culpa; my testing methodology was flawed.
Sounds like we should be returning an empty response for both a missing
header or a header with no content, then, just like OVER will. I'll make
that change in my writeup.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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