ietf-nntp TLS response codes

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Mar 20 10:04:18 PST 2003


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

>>> Disagree, and I think this sends the wrong message. Surely it's 502:

>>>     If the client is not authorized to use the specified facility
>>>     when the server is in its current state, the response code
>>>     502 MUST be returned.

>> Okay, yes, good point.  I agree, 502 would be better.

> Would this same code also apply to a reauth attempt when the server
> doesn't allow it?

That would make sense to me, yes.

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