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Re: lynx-dev Anyone ever look at nntps ?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Anyone ever look at nntps ? |
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:28:17 -0500 |
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:22:48PM -0600, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > > > The hostname of the NNTP server is 'nntp.sourceforge.net' and the port
> > > > NNTP is listening on is 563. (nntps, SSL-protected NNTP)
> > > >
> > > > We allow only SSL connections.
> > > >
> > > > You need to use your SourceForge user name and password to login.
>
> > > I was wondering if anyone had modified lynx to handle ssl based nntp.
>
> > no - but that would be a nice small project for someone (thinking in terms
> > of how large the ifdef's are for https support).
>
> I thought it's already there if lynx is built with SSL support -
> try
> snews://nntp.sourceforge.net
you're right (I hadn't recalled, but there is a chunk in HTTP.c for snews).
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