[NNTP] draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-02

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Thu Oct 14 05:29:03 PDT 2004


Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> Right now, the document says:
> 
>      The client SHOULD NOT assume that the article has been successfully
>      transferred unless it receives an affirmative response from the
>      server.  A lack of response (such as a dropped network connection
>      or a network timeout) SHOULD be treated the same as a 432 response.
> 
> I think it should say:
> 
>      The client SHOULD NOT assume that the article has been successfully
>      transferred unless it receives an affirmative response from the
>      server.  A lack of response (such as a dropped network connection or
>      a network timeout) or a 400 response SHOULD cause the transfer to be
>      tried again later if possible.
> 
> or something along those lines, including the wording from the 432
> response in there under the assumption that we're taking out that response
> code again.

The existing paragraph was taken verbatim (other then the 432) from the 
base doc.  Does this change also apply to IHAVE, or does TAKETHIS have 
subtle differences from IHAVE in the wild?

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