ietf-nntp Response code issues

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> "Clive D.W. Feather" wrote:

>> Which reminds me: LIST EXTENSIONS has a response code 402 meaning
>> "server has no extensions". This is equally well indicated by a 202
>> response followed by an empty list, but the present text says that 402
>> SHOULD be used.

>> This isn't really "temporary", and it's not really "failure"
>> either. Why is it there? Why is it recommended?

> I noticed this on my last reading as well.  I don't like two ways of
> doing the same thing, and a 403 code doesn't seem to make sense.  I
> agree that an empty 202 response is the way to go.

There's some existing implementations of LIST EXTENSIONS; I don't know how
much we care about those.  Other than that, I entirely agree.

I think it's probably safe to just leave the 402 business out.  If there
are existing servers that use it, the failure mode doesn't look too bad to
me.

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