Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.0a3
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None
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None
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Operating System: Other
Platform: Other
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13564
Description
There are a bunch of outstanding NNTP protocol bugs.
1. Use of STAT, ARTICLE, HEAD, or BODY with an article number argument does
not properly set the current article pointer to the current value.
2. For empty groups the current article pointer is set to 0 rather than being
left invalid when the LISTGROUP or GROUP commands are used. This is contrary
to RFC 2980.
3. For the NEWNEWS or NEWNEWSGROUP commands an absent or ill-formed date
parameter is improperly handled. A response indicating data will be sent is
delivered to the client, and then a NPE is generated, resulting in a close of
the connection. Instead, the server should return a 501 syntax error
4. OVER/XOVER is provided by the server, but the LIST OVERVIEW.FMT is not
supported, contrary to the strong recommendations of RFC 2980
I've got fixes for all of these - am waiting for the current discussion of
server architecture to resolve before I post them.