[NNTP] Re: MODE READER

[Mark Crispin]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>>>> Because INN certainly doesn't allow authentication to happen before a
>>>>> _required_ MODE READER
>>>> In that case, INN is not compliant with the AUTHINFO draft.
>>> If there is text in AUTHINFO which either explicitly or implicitly states 
>>> that MODE READER can't be used before authentication, please point it out 
>>> so I can fix it.  This certainly wasn't the intent of the document.
>> There is text in AUTHINFO which states that authentication can be used 
>> before MODE READER.
> Right, it says:
> "The AUTHINFO commands can be used before or after the MODE READER
> command, with the same semantics."
> It doesn't say that AUTHINFO MUST be used prior to mode reader.  How is INN 
> non-compliant?  Maybe I'm being thick.

The statement:

>>>>> Because INN certainly doesn't allow authentication to happen before a
>>>>> _required_ MODE READER

is non-complaint with:

> "The AUTHINFO commands can be used before or after the MODE READER
> command, with the same semantics."


You're thinking about the other case, which is of a server which issues a 
480 to MODE READER, which was the (2) example of server handling of mode 
reader.  AUTHINFO seems to prohibit this behavior as well as inn's 
behavior.

-- Mark --

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