[NNTP] Proposed changes to draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-02

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> I'll hold off on adding text about 403 until we hear from Andrew on
> this.  If we don't discuss 403, I might combine your two versions into
> something like:

> "If the server encounters a temporary error that prevents it from
> processing the article (such as disk full) but does not want to reject the
> article, and the error is likely to affect all subsequent attempts to
> transfer articles, it MUST reply with a 400 response to the client and
> close the connection."

> The point being that if the error only affects the given article
> (however unlikely), closing the connection seems unfriendly.

If we don't discuss 403, closing the connection is the only option the
server has though.  Doesn't 400 require an immediate close?

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