Are there any downsides to using the Netscape Messenger progress patch?
In other words, does it violate the standards in such a way as to
potentially break any other clients?
Reminder of what patch does:
replaces "okay();" in qmail-pop3d.c with
puts("+OK ");
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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
Petr Novotny writes:
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.
Yup. This is 100% Netscape brain damage. They can and should have
gotten the information from a different
Does anyone know if this behaviour persists in Mozilla?
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
Russell Nelson wrote:
Petr Novotny writes:
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.
