Response code "482" / XPATH

Olaf Titz olaf at bigred.inka.de
Wed Mar 28 08:58:16 UTC 2001


> It looks like an historical accident.  xpath is not supported under
> the storage manager, and of course that is all 2.3 has now.
>
> I thought that once upon a time, xpath returned the storage token if
> the storage manager was active.  But that might just be the cough
> syrup talking.

Wouldn't it be useful to re-interpret XPATH to return the Xref header
or part thereof (perhaps mangled)? I don't think it is useful for a
client at all to know how an article is stored (not even under
tradspool), but it may be useful to know the newsgroup(s) it is stored
in.

Olaf


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