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

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> 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?


Yes.

The reason I'm hesitant to document 403 (I'm now wondering why I 
mentioned it) is because it seems to be a deferral code on this case and 
we've already decided that they don't make sense after the server 
receives the article.


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