[ietf-nntp] authinfo-02 changes

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Ken Murchison said:
> 
>>>It's a fairly subtle point, but basically what my syntax says is:
>>>- the command line is made up of words separated by white space, and
>>>- the username is made up of those words after "USER";
>>>while your syntax says:
>>>- the username is those characters after "USER".
>>
>>Yes, I think this what we want.  It might not be very useful for USER, 
>>but people may want a leading/trailing space in their password,
> 
> 
> The problem is that this breaks the NNTP parsing model, and I am very very
> loath to do that.
> 
> 
>>>   AUTHINFO_PASS_secret
>>>   AUTHINFO_PASS_secret_
>>>   AUTHINFO_PASS__secret
>>>   AUTHINFO_PASS__secret_
>>>are all equivalent (the password is "secret") while yours has a parsing
>>>ambiguity: is the second space after PASS, or the trailing space, part
>>>of the passwords or not?
>>
>>I believe each of these should be different.
> 
> 
> Same issue.
> 
> In addition, it makes the whole grammar ambiguous, since there becomes more
> than one way to parse the same line.


Anyone else have any opinions?

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