Re: XHDR can no longer be used on Teranews

Patrik RÃ¥dman wrote:
> 
> support <[email protected]> wrote:
> > See
> >
> > http://www.teranews.com/systemstatus.html
> >
> > Refer to the 6/01/2003 area.
> >
> > We need a change in snfetch that uses some method other than XHDR for
> > acquiring articles.
> 
> Huh. So they had some problem with their server and they "solved" it by breaking
> clients? Plus they used the wrong error code. Color me unimpressed.

What they do is their choice.
 
> But, ranting aside, are you saying that snget doesn't work? 

Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.

> snfetch should
> fall back to using STAT if XHDR doesn't work, and everything should be OK.

STAT fails.  I don't know why but here is the pattern:
-> STAT 728136
<-
invalid reply :
exited 3
-> GROUP
<- 211

 
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