Support header-only feed from innfeed about inn HOT 2 OPEN

Comment by iulius on 25 Dec 2008 19:19 UTC
Not a compliance with standards, strictly speaking. But it may be in the future. That's why I mark this ticket as related to NNTP compliance.

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Comment by iulius on 27 Dec 2008 11:02 UTC
See this thread in the IETF-NNTP mailing-list:

Does the Diablo implementation do streaming for header feeds? If so, we need a header-only equivalent for TAKETHIS, maybe TAKEHEADER.
I think it does streaming but I am not sure. And CHECK also needs to be split in order to know whether the news server only has the headers (?)
And IHAVEHDR?

We'd need more information about how it's used. Does it rely on being able to distinguish between CHECK for a header and CHECK for a full article? What does a Diablo implementation with a header feed do if it gets a traditional CHECK for an article for which it has only the header? It may be that it's not that complicated.

Given that it's a new protocol, it's not clear to me that there's any reason to bother with an IHAVE equivalent. Again, though, we'd have to look at Diablo and see if it implements both.

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