a message header flag for interactive authentication?

Ville M. Vainio vivainio at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 08:35:14 PDT 2014


32 bit 'flags' field in protocol for every message, meaning of which is a
private matter of sender & receiver?
On Aug 27, 2014 6:03 PM, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 August 2014 10:41:02 Alban Crequy wrote:
> > I would prefer if the headers are not too difficult to parse if not
> > necessary. At the moment, the headers don't have any "body offset" field
> > to know where the body of the message starts. So any implementation
> > would need to parse the header completely, even if it is not interested
> > in everything. Adding a "(sv)" means there could be more variants to
> > parse recursively.
>
> So what do you recommend instead?
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