On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 19:50:11 +0100, Chris Young wrote:
> On Wednesday 02-Aug-00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> > Have you contacted the public server's tech support directly? It
> > could be that authentication can ONLY be through their web server.
> > That's why AWeb works and MDII doesn't: The news server is not setup
> > to do it, pure and simple.
>
> I was using their news server at the time (AWeb's news support), rather than
> going through the web server. In fact, I think this is the only way you
> can do it AFAIK.
Chris,
When in AWeb and connected to the news server, and AWeb is displaying
the list of messages for a particular group (or even the group
list will do), have AWeb show the Source Code of that display. If
it's all plain text, then you are most likely connected directly to
the news server and AWeb is handling formatting internally; however,
if it shows ANY HTML code, then the news server is sending you its
data through the site's web server. And as I said above, it may be
that the web server is handling authentication, and the news server is
not. So, the authentication with a dedicated news reader would fail,
since it is not interfaced with the web server that is really doing
the authenticating.
Let me know what you find out, and we'll go from there.
--
Patrick Bartek
NoLife Polymath Group
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