Posted by oracle on November 17, 2002, at 14:00:56
In reply to Re: newsgroups, posted by Dr. Bob on November 17, 2002, at 11:04:05
> OK, but I guess my real question was, how easy would it be to add an nntp interface *to these boards*?
>
> BobHmmmm, that is the hard question. NNTP
can use HTML as its format, so not problems there.
It might work to just point "document root" of NTTP (the place where all the html is) to the same place you use for the web pages.The real rub is posting. I assume perl formats the submitted pages and makes HTML ? Then just point the output of NNTP (when one posts) to your perl scripts. This might take are of athe issue of naming, ie, you do not want the seperate system possibly naming 2 pages the same.
Then there is the issue of username/passwords. How are you doing this ? If you are using the unix password file, it is very easy.
Without knowing specifics it is hard to say.
I think it best not to post the inner workings of
this board on a public place, could you mail me this info ?1) What NTTP news server do you have
2) How do you do auth to be allowed to post
3) Describe the process thru which a user posts,
ie how does a summited post get to the final product.I'll check on some of my other lists and see if anyone has done this already.
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