- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:38:22 PST
- To: "Carl Prothman, CCP" <carlpr@able-consulting.com>
- Cc: <uri@w3.org>
At the time RFC 1738 was written, there were no news servers that required a password. In any case, putting passwords in URLs is never a good idea, ever. It wouldn't be bad to dust off the "news" specification (as well as the others) so that we could obsolete RFC 1738 completely. > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Prothman, CCP [mailto:carlpr@able-consulting.com] > Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 8:32 AM > To: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu; masinter@parc.xerox.com; timbl@www.cern.ch > Subject: Fw: Command line for news? > > > Given the spec at Uniform Resource Locators (URL) > http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1738.txt > > Is there a way to specify the Username and Password for a News Server (if it > requires one)? If not, why was this left out of the spec? > > Thanks, > Carl Prothman, MVP, CCP > http://www.able-consulting.com > > > > > Steve Cochran <scochran@chattanooga.net> wrote in message > news:<LCC3M95J$GA.2132@CPMSBNEWSW01.betanews.com>... > > Hi Carl, > > > > I did some more rfc hunting and the best specification I can find is here: > > > > http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1738.txt > > > > There is no provision for username and password in that spec. > > > > cheers, > > > > steve > > > > Carl Prothman <carlpr@able-consulting.com> wrote in message news:z18KwxYJ$GA.1252@CPMSBNEWSW01.betanews.com... > > > What would be the syntax if there was a Username and Password required for > > > the server? > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Carl Prothman, MVP, CCP > > > http://www.able-consulting.com > > > > > > > > > "Steve Cochran" <scochran@chattanooga.net> wrote in message > > > news:e95wN4QJ$GA.1444@CPMSBNEWSW02.betanews.com... > > > > Hi Jessie Louise: > > > > > > > > Try this > > > > > > > > news://newserver/messageid > > > > > > > > e.g. > > > > > > > > news://msnews.microsoft.com/ecczni0E$GA.210@cppssbbsa02.microsoft.com > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > > > steve > > > > > > > > "Jessie Louise" <jl_mcclennan@compuserve.com> wrote in message > > > > news:uKL1EGmI$GA.1504@CPMSBNEWSW02.betanews.com... > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I can use a command line in the format > > > 'news://<server.name>/<group.name> > > > > to > > > > > open a newsreader to a specific group but how do I specify the > > > following? > > > > > > > > > > 1. UserID/logon - I know how to do this with 'ftp://' but all my > > > > > experiments with news:// have failed. > > > > > > > > > > 2. How do I create a link that will send someone to an particular message > > > > > in a group? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > Jessie Louise > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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