[ietf-nntp] AUTHINFO draft 01

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Jul 5 09:28:22 PDT 2004


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

>> Bleh.  I don't like either of those options; this is a code in
>> widespread use and I don't think we should fiddle with it, and AUTHINFO
>> PASS is treated like a command in every NNTP implementation I'm aware
>> of.  Can't we just allow this within the meaning of 3xx for NNTP?  I
>> know it's not particularly clean, but then what is, when it comes to
>> NNTP codes?

> I suspected this would be your answer.

> It's not clean, but it does just about still fit the letter of the text.
> I'd like us to find some way of discouraging people from doing it again,
> though.

We could put a note into the AUTHINFO draft saying that this isn't an
entirely correct use of 3xx but has been kept for compatibility reasons.

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



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