- From: Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 23:37:05 -0800 (PST)
- To: sob@academ.com
- Cc: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>, uri@Bunyip.Com, phil@netscape.com, chuckop@microsoft.com, lynx-dev@sig.net
> I don't know what the RFC number is for a news protocol that runs on port 563. > Can someone help me here? Is it just one of those things that people > did, but there is no document defining it? If that's the case, then I > would say that having a URL scheme for a protocol that is not defined > is not a good thing to do. Port 563 is assigned to NNTP over TLS/SSL. I assume this is NNTP in the conventional sense and not some different protocol. Note that using separate ports for TLS/SSL protocol variants has security impliciations; these days negotiation of security options within the protocol (and using the regular port) is usually considered to be the right way to go. Ned
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