[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Thu Nov 18 01:08:50 PST 2004
Kai Henningsen said:
> Something like the following:
>
> * Document that 433 is the standard port for transfer
> * Document that for historical reasons, very many servers use 119 just as
> for client access
> * Document that some few servers use both client and transfer access on
> port 119, and that this case is SHOULD NOT, and that there's an old
> mechanism of "MODE READER" for coping with this, and that, *if* that is
> needed, that command needs to be the very first thing sent, and if the
> server doesn't like that command in that position, not send it at all.
> * And document that standard servers might, to be compatible with
> pre-standard clients, want to support MODE READER on port 119 as a no-op
> compatibility command - they ought to accept it whenever any client
> command is allowed, for maximum compatibility.
[...]
> # MODE_READER means if you want reader access, your very next move MUST be
> to issue MODE READER and reset everything you know. You really cannot
> have TLS running for that.
Have you looked at 25.pre-3 yet? It says something similar, though not
identical, to that.
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