[ietf-nntp] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-00.txt
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Wed May 26 04:24:56 PDT 2004
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>>But I'm not going to argue too strongly against
>>this and I'll just use "383 =" as an empty challenge.
>
>
> Query: would "383 ====" be better, so that base64 parsers can always grab a
> 4-character chunk? [Ditto elsewhere.]
Neither "=" nor "====" are valid base64, so the length doesn't matter.
The idea is that the protocol parser would trap this before blindly
passing it onto the base64 decoder. Since "=" is documented as an empty
initial response in SMTP, POP3 and IMAP, I'd rather stick with it for NNTP.
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