ietf-nntp Standardization of LIST OVERVIEW.FMT

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sat Apr 5 09:53:13 PST 2003


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

> There is a known issue with the sequences <non-CR> <LF> <.> <LF> and
> <non-CR> <LF> <.> <CR> <LF>; some servers (incorrectly) recognize these
> as terminators and others do not, which allows NNTP commands to be
> embedded in the article. In response to this there are now servers which
> will drop any article containing either of the above.

> So my preference is still to treat articles containing bare LF as
> ill-formed.

Oh, right.

Okay, my preference would be to leave the text as-is, possibly adding a
note to the OVER text explaining that some of the conditions that
transformation takes into account should never come up, but this algorithm
is recommended anyway because it's robust against any future changes.

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



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