ietf-nntp AUTHINFO SASL protocol choices

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Mar 28 10:42:54 PST 2002


Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> Draft 15 does not say what happens if a client violates the line length
> limit.  There are three things a server can reasonably do:
> - accept the longer command
> - silently truncate to 512
> - return a syntax error

> Do we intend to comment on which of these are appropriate?

I think we should at least say that truncation isn't allowed.  Either the
server should accept the command or it should return a syntax error, but
truncation is evil.

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



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