On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:12 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/10/2017 11:05 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: >> Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> can you get a newsreader to work with a https news service? >>> No. A newsreader works with NNTP protocol. >> >> Traditionally NNTP over SSL was done on port 563. Some feeds now also >> provide it on 443 to get around client-side firewall hassles. > > Yes but that's not via https.
What's the meaning of "https news service" then? If it's netnews, it's NNTP, not HTTP. If it just happens to be a web app that carries information from a newsgroup, then that's not a news service, it's a web forum, and there's no such thing as a generic web forum API. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
