[NNTP] Case sensitivity

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Aug 30 15:06:47 PDT 2004


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

> Hmm. So:

>     aUtHiNfO sAsL PLAIN weeble

> is fine but

>     authinfo sasl plain weeble

> isn't.

> You could allow it to be case insensitive (thus requiring the server to
> uppercase the method internally). But it's not a major point; I'll leave
> it up to you to decide where to go with this.

Yeah, I think we should just stick with the SASL standard on this, no
matter how weird it might be compared to the rest of the protocol.  (It's
kind of weird compared to the rest of the IMAP protocol too.)

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



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