news server responses with no msg?

news server responses with no msg?

[Kai Großjohann]

Suppose Gnus issues a `LIST ACTIVE' command, and the server responds
with `215 foo' -- then everything should be fine.  But what if the
server responds with `215' (the space and the message are missing)?
What would happen in this case?  Does anybody know?

IMVHO, Gnus should accept this response, too.  Even if it might
violate the RFC, which possibly (I haven't looked) requires a space
and a message to follow the status code.

kai
-- 
The passive voice should never be used.

Re: news server responses with no msg?

[Simon Josefsson]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Suppose Gnus issues a `LIST ACTIVE' command, and the server responds
> with `215 foo' -- then everything should be fine.  But what if the
> server responds with `215' (the space and the message are missing)?
> What would happen in this case?  Does anybody know?

It would try to treat it as a newsgroup.  I'll commit the following
soonish unless someone objects.  (And yes, it is g-i-newsgroups which
is, somewhat non-inuitively, used to remove the NNTP responses.)

2001-05-11  Simon Josefsson  <simon@josefsson.org>

	* gnus-start.el (gnus-ignored-newsgroups): Also ignore NNTP type
	status lines without any text ("^215$").

--- gnus-start.el.~6.19.~	Sun May  6 02:15:16 2001
+++ gnus-start.el	Fri May 11 22:30:02 2001
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
 (defcustom gnus-ignored-newsgroups
   (mapconcat 'identity
 	     '("^to\\."			; not "real" groups
-	       "^[0-9. \t]+ "		; all digits in name
+	       "^[0-9. \t]+\\( \\|$\\)"	; all digits in name
 	       "^[\"][]\"[#'()]"	; bogus characters
 	       )
 	     "\\|")

Re: news server responses with no msg?

[Kai Großjohann]

Very nice.  I think that would solve a problem that someone in
de.comp.editors or de.comp.gnu had.  Thanks!
kai
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The passive voice should never be used.