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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 1995 11:42:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      bmk@dtr.com
To:        troyc@sandy.merix.com (Troy Curtiss)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape and News Proxies??
Message-ID:  <199511151942.LAA01843@dtr.com>
In-Reply-To: <troyc-9510151746.AA000110096@sandy> from "Troy Curtiss" at Nov 15, 95 09:46:49 am

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> I have netscape 2.02b running great on my 2.0.5R FreeBSD box.  My company
> doesn't have the luxury of an internal News server, so we use our provider's.
> Netscape apparently can't do news through a proxy, is this true?  I know
> lynx can do news thru a proxy.  This is more of a netscape question, but
> will I have to run lynx side-by-side with my netscape (on FreeBSD) to get
> news?  TIA

Netscape can read news via a proxy - you have to configure the proxy
address in netscape, and your proxy http server must know how to forward
news:* URL's.




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