Hi Randall,
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:08:31 -0800, in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randall Parker wrote:
> Ralph,
>
> Why is it that that server uses a secure encrypted link to it? Why make
> that news group in particular so hard to reach? I don't get it.
I can't speak for Netscape. You should ask Netscape that question.
Perhaps it is to make it hard to reach for people not using Netscape
Communicator -- but your guess is as good as mine.
> I use news servers that require me to log onto them but they don't
> require that I use the snews protocol.
>
> I use Gravity http://www.microplanet.com as my news reader. I see that
> they have an option "Log on using Secure Password Authentication" but I
> think SPA is an MSN thing that is unrelated to SSL.
As you say, Secure Password Authentication is not the same thing as SSL.
I don't know whether Gravity supports SSL or not.
If not, then STunnel http://www.stunnel.org/ may be able to provide
the SSL encryption for Gravity.
>From a recent thread on the Fort� Agent newsgroup
| Goto www.stunnel.org and download the windows software. Make sure
| to get the newest patch 3.8p4 of STunnel, and the libraries
| libssl32.dll and libeay32.dll.
[ see http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=700339313 ]
Ralph
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