Re: When is usexhdr useful in leafnode 2?
Adam Funk <a24061-yXNeHEYmD9/[email protected]> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:51:42 +0100
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On 2014-06-30, Whiskers wrote: > One returns all headers and body for the specified MID(s), the other can return > specified fields only. (We're supposed not to use the X in the command names > now). > > One circumstance in which HDR might be quicker, is if you need to retrieve only > one header and your connection to the server is very slow. I think HDR may > make more work for the upstream server. > > The HDR command can be used eg to extract the References header from a given > article and from that issue the OVER commend for each of the MIDs revealed; > useful if you want to reconstruct a thread. (Slrn seems to work that way to > reconstruct a thread - which it can do when connected to Leafnode 2 but not > with Leafnode 1 which doesn't support HDR). That all makes sense, but I still have no idea why I had put 'usexhdr = 1' under aioe. I took it out yesterday & can't see anything fishy going on, so I'll leave it out.