From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 20 1999 - 15:54:48 CDT
John Moreno <phenix@interpath.com> writes:
> I've just checked two servers, INN 1.7.2 and RumorMill 1.2, both barfed
> (more precisely they didn't work, but the articles were accepted which
> is even worse).
INN doesn't parse the header; it uses it verbatim:
p = HDR(_supersedes);
if (*p && ARTidok(p)) {
ARTcancel(&Data, p, FALSE);
}
ARTidok() just checks to see if it's a syntactically valid message ID. In
general, I believe you'll find that in most deployed news server software
if there historically wasn't a need to parse the header the header wasn't
parsed.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>