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Re: nntp support

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:53:26 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, leonardo alminana wrote:

> Hi, i'd like to add support for the nntp protocol, is anyone working in it
> or interested in it?

Nobody has said anything about it at least, and I'm not even aware of anyone
particularly asking for it.

But to me the primary question is: is there an established/set URI/URL syntax
for the protocol? That's basically the main requirement we need on a protocol
for inclusion since we are still making a library that transfers data
specified as URLs (or possibly URIs but let's not say that since that makes
our name less fine! ;*).

I found some NNTP URL references in RFC1738. Is that the style you were
thinking of using?

Out of curiousity, what's the purpose for which you want/need nntp in libcurl?

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2009-06-22