ietf-nntp New HDR text (with metadata)

Clive D. W. Feather clive at on-the-train.demon.co.uk
Wed Sep 4 03:14:05 PDT 2002


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In message <yl7kie6u8g.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery 
<rra at stanford.edu> writes
>9.5.3  The HDR Extension

A few nit-picks for you.

>  The required header parameter is the name of a
>  header (e.g. "subject") in an article,

without the trailing colon,

>or the name of a metadata item,
>  and is case-insensitive.
[...]
>  If the header occurs in a given article multiple times, only the value
>  of the first occurrence is returned by HDR.

Does anyone have a problem with this, or should it be "an arbitrary 
occurrence"?

>  If the article is specified by message-id rather than by article range,
>  the article number is given as "0".  If the requested header is not
>  present in the article or if it is present but empty, a line for that
>  article is included in the output but the header content portion of the
>  line is empty.

Does a space follow the number or not in this case?

>9.5.3.1.1  Responses
>
>      225  Headers follow (multiline response)
>      412  No newsgroup selected
>      420  No article selected
>      423  No article with that number

or range contains no articles.

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