Re: LYNX-DEV Re: continued problems with ssleay patches for zip

[Tom Zerucha]

On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:

> Tom Zerucha <address@hidden> wrote:
> >On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> 
> >>    Note that the people using a hookless Lynx with Tom's SSL
> >> daemon should be able to just define snewspost_proxy and
> >> snewsreply_proxy identically to their snews_proxy for that daemon,
> >> but that hasn't been tested empirically yet, i.e., I'm waiting for
> >> Tom to try it and let me know if it actually works.
> >
> >I haven't tried the post stuff (since I don't have a URL to point at), but
> >the snews still works with the proxy.  I assume that snewspost_proxy would
> >be "nntp://";.
> 
>       Yes.  As far as your daemon is concerned, sending an encrypted
> POST command followed by the headers and body, and returning the server's
> replies unencrypted, is no different from sending requests for listings
> or articles and returning replies.  It would be nice, though, if someone
> actually tried that new code before the 15th, in case it has a typo
> or stupid error to which I'm blind 'cuz I see what I intended when I
> look at it, instead of what's actually there.
> 
>       Try:
>       
>    Linkname: Newsgroup netscape.appfoundry.tools.next
>         URL: snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.appfoundry.tools.next
> 
> if you want to read some of my test posts and followups.

There is one problem with the proxy - I think Lynx is assuming the
connection is maintained for the snewspost, since I see a connection, but
you do not send any command (which should still be "GET nntp://secnews...";
and lynx breaks the connection if I return any text.

I haven't tried the merge version yet, but will soon.

address@hidden
finger address@hidden for PGP key

;
; To UNSUBSCRIBE:  Send a mail message to address@hidden
;                  with "unsubscribe lynx-dev" (without the
;                  quotation marks) on a line by itself.
;