Re: ietf-nntp OVER extension
greg andruk <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Sep 2002 19:44:30 -0400
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Russ Allbery wrote: > I think that Andrew's point was well-made and that maybe we shouldn't add > this just for the sake of consistency when it seems rather unlikely that > any client will bother issuing such a command. OVER <id> isn't needed, as long as the metadata, particularly :bytes, is available through HDR. The reason, NNTP's lack of a clean way to interrupt ARTICLE transfers, just came up again in news.software.nntp. HEAD is useless for preventing those unexpected long transfers; for example, there appears to be some popular binary posting software that always uses "Lines: 10" regardless of actual size. _______________________________________________ ietf-nntp mailing list [email protected] https://www.academ.com/mailman/listinfo/ietf-nntp