[NNTP] Snapshot 5

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:

> Ken Murchison said:
> 
>>Section 3.6.2:
>>
>>Perhaps we should borrow the following from RFC 2449 for the description 
>>of IMPLEMENTATION:
>>
>>"(Note that since capability line arguments are separated by whitespace, 
>>it may be convenient for the IMPLEMENTATION capability argument to not 
>>contain whitespace, so that it is a single token.)
> 
> 
> I don't follow the logic of 2449 there; since the entire rest of the line
> is the server identification, why arbitrarily limit it to one token?
> I'm against doing this.

I'm assuming that the fear was that a client would parse the arguments 
into individual tokens rather than just treating everything following 
"IMPLEMENTATION" as a single string.  As long as the client doesn't 
rearrange the tokens or try to infer any meaning based on the order, I 
suppose its not a big deal.

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