ietf-nntp MODE READER

[Charles Lindsey]

In <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303171531470.7482-100000 at puck.litech.org> "Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> writes:

>On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Charles Lindsey wrote:

>> news.cis.dfn.de have implemented a nice extension to IHAVE whereby they
>> will accept that command from anybody (or at least from whose they will
>> allow to Approve). If they already have the article, they respond
>> accordingly; otherwise, they allow you to send it, but treat it like POST
>> (i.e. they add their usual tracing headers).

>Recent snapshots of INN have similar support, actually.

How can you tell which form of IHAVE you are using? Should you be able to
discover this from LIST EXTENSIONS, or should there be some different
response code?

Note that, for usual purposes, it is convenient for a client that is
actually a newsserver in its own right to be able to use IHAVE without
knowing or caring which it is - just that sometimes it might like to know
for some special reason.

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