Bug 149831

Summary:	"xhdr newsgroups" lies
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <h1k6zn2m>
Component:	inn	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2005-02-28 04:23:33 UTC

I've got inn-2.4.2-1.

"xhdr newsgroups" lies -- it doesn't return the actual Newsgroups
header of the article, but rather a list of newsgroups with all groups
that aren't available on the server stripped out.

This behavior is patently incorrect.  Just because a particular
newsgroup doesn't exist on my server doesn't mean it shouldn't be
preserved in the Newsgroups line when I follow up on a posting.  With
the behavior I described above, if my News reader uses xhdr to
determine the list of newsgroups to which the post a followup, which
it does in fact do and which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do,
it'll get it wrong.

As far as I'm concerned this is a violation of the NNTP spec.  The
xhdr command is supposed to return the actual message header, not the
header as INN chooses to pervert it.

Comment 1 ptomblin 2005-12-02 16:20:09 UTC

It sounds like INN is trying to optimize the response by looking in the x-ref in
the overview rather than having to re-parse the article, because that's the
behaviour of x-ref.  You're right, that's a violation of RFC-2980.

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2005-12-20 14:26:42 UTC

Will be fixed in version 2.4.3...