NNTPS support?

tb5174 · Post by **tb5174** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:17 pm

Does/will NewsPro support NNTPS (snews)?

alex · Post by **alex** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 1:53 am

you can use stunnel to achieve that.

snews (SSL) has some overhead (in every SSL packet there is hash checksum - at least 16 bytes plus more data, also handshake - estabilishing connections may be relatively slow and create a load on the server processor), maybe it is the reason as a rule SSL is not supported by news providers.

in principle it is simple to add, newsfeeds is currently using SSH.

tb5174 · Post by **tb5174** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 1:36 pm

Thanks for the response. I'll use stunnel.

Tom