- From: Phil Peterson <phil@netscape.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 11:11:16 -0800
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- CC: uri@Bunyip.Com, Charles Opperman <chuckop@microsoft.com>, lynx-dev@sig.net
Al Gilman wrote: > > I have got the following from Keith Moore, co-AD for Applications > concerning my Internet-Draft on the 'news' URL scheme (which > actually defines three scheme names: news, nntp, snews; all with > the same syntax outside of the scheme identifier). > > > A separate port for news+ssl is unacceptable for standards-track; > > it introduces security holes and wastes ports. > > The offending language in the draft is: > > > When the scheme is news, the default port (in server) is 119. > > When the scheme is snews, the default port (in server) is 563. > > So: > > Are snews URLs used? Is news+ssl offered with any regularity? > Is port 563 generally used for this? > > Should this be discouraged? Actively or passively, by failing to > bless this usage with a Proposed Standard? Netscape clients and servers support NNTP/SSL over 563, the IANA-assigned port. I think there's more value in documenting this usage than in discouraging it, actively or passively. We do not have NNTP support to step-up from clear text to encrypted in the same session. I'm not aware of any proposed NNTP protocol extensions to support that usage (as draft-hoffman-smtp-ssl-05.txt has done for SMTP). -- Phil. -- Phil Peterson Netscape mail/news client engineering
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