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[trunk] port 119 not added automatically when adding a server
Posted: January 19th, 2009, 5:46 pm
by sander
Disclaimer: I don't whether discussing trunk version is allowed here. Anyway:
I downloaded trunk, and it's behaving different than 0.4.5: when adding a server, the port number 119 is not automagically added. I would say this is annoying / error prone ...
Oh ... and it looks like the password to the nntp password is not remembered, but that could be caused by Firefox...
Re: [trunk] port 119 not added automatically when adding a server
Posted: January 20th, 2009, 3:05 pm
by shypike
Fixed.
Thanks for the tip.
Re: [trunk] port 119 not added automatically when adding a server
Posted: January 20th, 2009, 3:11 pm
by switch
Also just made it use 563 as the default port if SSL is checked.
Re: [trunk] port 119 not added automatically when adding a server
Posted: January 20th, 2009, 3:19 pm
by shypike
Why 563?
443 is just as popular for SSL.
Re: [trunk] port 119 not added automatically when adding a server
Posted: January 20th, 2009, 6:21 pm
by switch
It is safer to presume 563, I'm pretty sure its more widly accepted than 443.
Re: [trunk] port 119 not added automatically when adding a server
Posted: January 21st, 2009, 2:06 am
by sander
switch wrote:
It is safer to presume 563, I'm pretty sure its more widly accepted than 443.
I think port 563 is indeed (more) standard for nntps than port 443 (which is https). Port 443 is probably used (not meant) on corporate, proxied networks to circumvent corporate policies.
sander@ubuntu810-on-athlon64:~$ grep -i nntps /etc/services
nntps 563/tcp snntp # NNTP over SSL
nntps 563/udp snntp
sander@ubuntu810-on-athlon64:~$ grep 443 /etc/services
https 443/tcp # http protocol over TLS/SSL
https 443/udp
sander@ubuntu810-on-athlon64:~$