[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-authinfo-05
& draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-03
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Tue Oct 5 07:38:13 PDT 2004
Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
>> Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>>
>>> Just going through these now. Comments on the latter sent separately.
>>> I've just realized there's a potential deadlock: what stops a server
>>> giving
>>> 483 to AUTHINFO and 480 to STARTTLS? Do we want to forbid the latter
>>> (particularly since you can't use STARTTLS after authentication), or
>>> do we
>>> want to leave this in the "too dumb to worry about" pile?
>>
>>
>> Not a bad idea, but I don't care either way.
>
>
> I can reasonably see forbidding a 480 response to STARTTLS, I think.
> Thoughts on that?
I agree. Since we don't allow STARTTLS after AUTHINFO, a 480 response
to STARTTLS is nonsensical.
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