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clarify that servers SHOULD send RPL_ENDOFWHOIS
From discussion on https://github.com/Libera-Chat/sable/issues/101
cc @progval
RPL_ENDOFWHOIS is not sent after ERR_NEEDMOREPARAMS
Not after ERR_NONICKNAMEGIVEN either.
At least in our implementation we only send ERR_ENDOFWHOIS after a well formed WHOIS request. So you'll only get it after one ERR_NOSUCHNICK or one or more RPL_WHOIS* numerics. I don't think we need to worry too much about clients sending broken responses imo.
Thanks, I updated this to clarify that the SHOULD only applies when the client's message is well-formed.
Can/should we also keep it a MUST when there is no <target> (ie. local whois), or should we leave this implementation-specific?
I don't see a compelling reason to change it right now (we would presumably have to do a more detailed investigation of server behaviors, also it's not clear to me that a hard guarantee here would be helpful to clients --- as in the debate over labeled-response, clients should probably implement a timeout regardless?)
I would support opening a follow-up thread to discuss this.