[ietf-nntp] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-00.txt

[Ken Murchison]

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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