ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

Joao Prado Maia jpm at papercut.org
Tue Feb 25 07:50:05 PST 2003


On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:

> 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.
> 

Because that will require the user to mark the NNTP connection as 
requiring authentication. I just want the client to tell me which host he 
is trying to connect to, just like in HTTP.

I don't want to restrict the users to certain servers.

Cheers,
Joao




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