Re: NNTP provider supports SSL?

Lee Yeow Leong wrote:
> I would need some help in getting the NNTP provider to connect to a 
> news server which requires SSL connection.  I wrote the following
>
> Properties props = new Properties();
> props.put("mail.nntp.host", "<news server>:563");
> props.put("mail.nntp.user", "<id>@<news server>");
> Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props);
> session.setDebug(true);
> URLName url = new URLName("nntp://<news server>:563");
> Store store = session.getStore(url);
>
> I'm using JDK1.4(which presumely comes with SSL support).

The NNTP provider doesn't support SSL, nor does the NNTP specification 
provide for SSL as a transport layer. It would be trivial to rewrite 
the NNTP provider to use SSL, however: see the code that instantiates 
secure sockets in the IMAP and POP3 providers, for instance.
-- 
Chris Burdess