Hi Patrick,
On Monday 07-Aug-00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 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.
Okay, it's a bit tricky because it uses frames. There *is* HTML code
showing - However, the top frame contains this document:
x-aweb:news/6/pubnews.netcom.net.uk/comp.sys.amiga.misc
Which looks suspiciously like an internal AWeb document. I think AWeb is
formatting the data from the news server into HTML before displaying it.
> 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.
Fair enough, although there is information on their website
http://pubnews.netcom.net.uk about configuring dedicated newsreaders.
I'm going to try (another) different server and see whether I have more luck
with that.
> Let me know what you find out, and we'll go from there.
I was going to try it out on Mozilla on a PC, but the current build I have
doesn't appear to support authentication for news, so I couldn't try it. I
might have a hunt around to see if I've got another Amiga newsreader lying
around on a cover CD somewhere, but my CD-ROM drive is flakey at best so I
don't really want the hassle :(
Chris
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