From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 21 1999 - 16:51:58 CDT
In <ylu2op5mnb.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>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.
Sure, but what happens when ARTcancel sees stuff beyond the syntactically
valid message ID?
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