[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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