Audit of INN against draft-ietf-nntpext-base-13.txt complete
Alex Kiernan
alexk at demon.net
Wed Jun 5 14:36:09 UTC 2002
Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
> Alex Kiernan <alexk at demon.net> writes:
>
> > That was my plan, more or less; if we break people because they were
> > relying on things which were unsupportable, thats their problem, but if
> > we can avoid gratuitously breaking them I'd like to.
>
> Makes sense to me. And in general I fall on the configurability side of
> the debate over pure standard implementation vs. highly customizeable
> software, although I think INN has suffered from having a few too many odd
> corners tacked on and needs some cleaning up in that department.
>
> > Is there a list somewhere of the headers a relaying agent should
> > require?
>
> RFC 1036 on that score is actually pretty accurate. Basically, From,
> Date, Newsgroups, Subject, Message-ID, and Path.
>
OK, I've just implemented IHAVE support for nnrpd (but not committed
it yet), here's what I've done:
Require Date, From, Message-ID, Newsgroups, Path and Subject headers
Add X-Trace and X-Complaints-To unconditionally (stomping on anything
the client supplied)
Suppresses generation or alteration of NNTP-Posting-Host,
NNTP-Posting-Date, Organization, Lines, Cc, Bcc and To headers
I haven't made the X-Trace and X-Complaints-To headers configurable
yet - yes I know thats wrong according to the RFC, I just thought I'd
ask here first for peoples views.
I'm about to rewrite READline so the line length limit goes away which
fixes one of the problem cases I can't otherwise easily work around
for POST/IHAVE differences.
--
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, Thus PLC
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