On Dec 5, 2004, at 6:06 AM, Ludovic Hirlimann wrote:
I have a small question about usenet links what is the difference between news:// and nntp:// ?news:// URIs are weird (as URIs go) because they don't give you enough information to locate a resource; i.e. they have no server name on them. They take the form of news://groupname or news://messageid, but you'll need access to a news (usually NNTP :-)) server to do anything with that.
nntp:// URIs specify how to access a news article on a particular NNTP server. So you get nntp://host:port/groupname/articlenumber. They have the advantage of containing enough information to access an article but the disadvantage that most nntp servers only service local clients, so they will not tend to be universally accessible. RFC 1738 states that the news: form of URL is preferred because they will be more globally accessible.
Someone else pointed out a draft that aims to alter the form of news:// URLs and deprecate nntp:// URLs but that is not the current standard... just a proposal for change.
Geoff
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