[NNTP] Internationalisation, attempt 2

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri May 6 14:28:34 PDT 2005


Kai Henningsen <kaih at khms.westfalen.de> writes:

> Is there something about <ab.cd at ExAmPlE.CoM>? If not, there should
> probably be. (That is, while domain names are case insensitive, message
> ids are compared bytewise.)

You actually can't rely on that; INN compares the RHS case-insensitively
(and the LHS case-insensitively as well iff it case-insensitively matches
"postmaster", due to a hilarious misreading of the standard that I haven't
fixed for backward compat issues).

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



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