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On 18 Jul 00, at 10:54, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> Are there any downsides to using the Netscape Messenger progress
> patch?
You're supporting broken technology.
> In other words, does it violate the standards in such a way as
> to potentially break any other clients?
No, unless they're broken. (Of course, if you have to choose
between supporting broken client 1 and broken client 2, well, tough
luck...)
> Reminder of what patch does:
> replaces "okay();" in qmail-pop3d.c with
> puts("+OK ");
> put(strnum,fmt_ulong(strnum,m[i].size));
> puts(" octets\r\n");
Well, yeah. "+OK" field is mandatory, the rest is optional and can
be anything. Netscape is brain-dead to parse the comment and try
to make anything of it. My Pegasus can show me downloading
progress, without need to parse a comment... Go figure.
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