[NNTP] Proposed changes to AUTHINFO-09

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Aug 8 10:26:40 PDT 2005


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> Ken Murchison wrote:

>> @@ -319,8 +316,8 @@
>>       return 480 in response to AUTHINFO USER/PASS.
>>       Parameters
>> -        username = UTF-8 string identifying the user/client
>> -        password = UTF-8 string representing the user's password
>> +        username = octet string identifying the user/client
>> +        password = octet string representing the user's password
>>  2.3.2. Description

> Does "octet string" sound right, or should I change this to "string of 
> octets", or simply "string"?

It sounds fine to me.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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