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  • What to respond to xoverview

    From Matto Fransen@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 10 16:14:42 2023
    Hi,

    I see Gnus doing a request: xoverview [range]

    I haven't found this request in the RFC.

    How should the nntp server respond to this request?

    Thanks again,

    Best regards,

    Matto

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to Frank on Fri Feb 10 07:33:37 2023
    Frank <[email protected]> writes:

    The documentation suggests that it is used as an alias for XOVER.

    nntp-xover-commands
    List of strings used as commands to fetch NOV lines from a
    server. The default value of this variable is ("XOVER" "XOVERVIEW").

    I think it may date back to C News? Not sure.

    --
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    Please post questions rather than mailing me directly.
    <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.

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  • From Frank@21:1/5 to Matto Fransen on Fri Feb 10 15:26:02 2023
    On 2023-02-10, Matto Fransen <[email protected]> wrote:

    I see Gnus doing a request: xoverview [range]
    I haven't found this request in the RFC.

    The documentation suggests that it is used as an alias for XOVER.

    nntp-xover-commands
    List of strings used as commands to fetch NOV lines from a server. The default value of this variable is ("XOVER" "XOVERVIEW").

    https://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_82.html#NNTP https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2980#section-2.11

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  • From Franck@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 10 18:21:56 2023
    Le 10/02/2023 à 16:26, Frank a écrit :

    The documentation suggests that it is used as an alias for XOVER.

    ...

    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2980#section-2.11

    Oops, you are pointing to XROVER.
    XOVER is at https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2980#section-2.8

    Franck

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  • From Matto Fransen@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 11 10:27:25 2023
    On 10 February 2023 15:26 Frank, wrote:

    I see Gnus doing a request: xoverview [range]
    I haven't found this request in the RFC.

    The documentation suggests that it is used as an alias for XOVER.

    nntp-xover-commands List of strings used as commands to fetch NOV
    lines from a server. The default value of this variable is
    ("XOVER" "XOVERVIEW").


    Ah, OK.

    I will make it point to the same function for the xover reponse.

    Thanks!

    Best regards,

    Matto

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  • From Matto Fransen@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 11 10:29:11 2023
    On 10 February 2023 18:21 Franck, wrote:

    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2980#section-2.11

    Oops, you are pointing to XROVER.
    XOVER is at https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2980#section-2.8

    So, not only RFC3977 but also RFC2980 to study :)
    Diving deeper into the rabit hole ...

    Thanks for the link!

    Best regards,

    Matto

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Julien_=c3=89LIE?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 11 19:19:47 2023
    Hi Matto,

    So, not only RFC3977 but also RFC2980 to study :)
    Diving deeper into the rabit hole ...

    And you'll find even more RFCs to study in http://www.tin.org/docs.html :-)

    --
    Julien ÉLIE

    « Sometimes in love you must accept the fact that what makes the person
    you cared about happy might on the other hand leave you so lonely. »

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  • From Matto Fransen@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 11 20:51:51 2023
    Hi Julien,

    On 11 February 2023 19:19 Julien ÉLIE, wrote:

    Hi Matto,

    So, not only RFC3977 but also RFC2980 to study :)
    Diving deeper into the rabit hole ...

    And you'll find even more RFCs to study in http://www.tin.org/docs.html :-)

    Ow, that is quite a lot :)

    "remember what the dormouse said ..."

    Thanks for the pointer!

    Best regards,

    Matto

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