> What kind of insane news-reader insists on using HEAD when XOVER is
> available?
Quite a few, unfortunately. On one of the busy nntpcache servers here,
1/3 of the files in each group directory are _head files.
> > Instead, use only _xover files, and whenever a HEAD request is made,
> > regenerate the header from the xover information. This is what INN does.
>
> <shrug> It's completely broken behavior. INN shouldn't do it.
And INN doesn't - that info is completely false. Inn INN-1.5.1, INN
reads the whole article and then searches for a double newline to find
the end of the headers, in ARTreadheader(). The calls go like this:
NCproc
NChead
ARTreadheader
ARTreadarticle
I agree that it would be good to get rid of the single file per article,
but I think it would be better to spend some time finding a general
solution to this, instead of concentrating on the _head files.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
