Re: Fwd: I-D Action: draft-melnikov-rfc2088bis-01.txt

Alexey Melnikov <[email protected]>
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On 19/12/2014 09:26, Dave Cridland wrote:
>
> On 17 December 2014 at 18:35, Alexey Melnikov 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     I revived and updated LITERAL+ extension. I also added LITERAL-
>     extension (same as LITERAL+, but disallowed in APPEND).
>
>
> Given the current discussions, wouldn't LITERAL- be better expressed 
> as a LITERAL+ with a limited size?
I can go along with that. What is a reasonable limit?
Also, this has interactions with APPENDLIMIT.

Any other opinions on what people prefer?

> I accept that the normal case for a large literal is APPEND,  but the 
> issue is a general one with the size of the literal rather than the 
> specific case of APPEND, isn't it?
>
> This could even be an advertised token-sequence limit, but that's 
> probably too hard to express.
Sounds like overkill. Either way, can you suggest how this is going to 
look like?

> Possible, though, to limit the amount of non-synchronized literal data 
> with an entire command, which'd handle the MULTIAPPEND case as well.
>
> To give an specific case, a client can always side-step a simple 
> APPEND LITERAL+ limit by just using CATENATE in a fairly abusive manner.

A client that can append can do all sort of damage. Selecting INBOX and 
doing "COPY 1:* INBOX" in a loop is my favourite.

Best Regards,
Alexey

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