ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Joao Prado Maia wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
> > Why not just have users login with a fully qualified userid (eg,
> > user at domain.com)?  This is what is typically done for IMAP and POP3.
>
> Because I don't need this feature for authentication purposes. I basically
> just want to serve different content for each separate "virtual host".

How does Ken's solution not accomplish this?  You need to know the realm
to authenticate the user in anyway, you might as well use that again to
determine what realm to be a virtual host for.

-Rob

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