Always 224 with XOVER?

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Russ,

>> Well, the reason why I write is that I changed 224 to 420 when needed
>> for XOVER, thinking that it would be right.  Unfortunately, some news
>> clients (like Windows Mail...) send a pop-up to tell me "Error 420:  No
>> articles in 976-976"!!!!
>
> Yup.  :)  You can't change return codes for existing commands.  That's why
> it was helpful to standardize the command under a different name so that
> we could fix various historic problems with the status codes that ended up
> being used in implementations.

Fixed.
Besides, nnrpd now provides a nice comment :)

XOVER 5
224 No articles in 5
.

(instead of "224 5 fields follow")


>> I tried with Thunderbird and it does not trigger any error off.  I do
>> not know however why it tries HEAD -- maybe it does not rely on the
>> result of XOVER :)
>
> It's probably written to fall back on HEAD if XOVER fails for any reason
> so that it can work with servers that don't implement XOVER.

But it should only do that with 5xx errors and not 4xx.
My bug report on that subject was confirmed:
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455141

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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