ietf-nntp Draft 17 pre-2

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Feb 25 12:04:10 PST 2003


Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> The idea is that an implementation can either:
> * say it doesn't recognise the LIST DISTRIBUTIONS (to pick an example)
>   command, in which case it returns 501; or
> * say it knows what you want but doesn't have the information, in which
>   case it returns 503.
> I know that there's little difference from the client's point of view.

> I point out elsewhere that 503 is rather a dog's dinner. This is another
> example. Does anyone really use 503 in this way?

It depends on what you mean by "use."  INN does return those status codes,
but I have no idea if any client cares one way or the other.

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



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