looking for some code to get me started with making a basic newsreader.
Icz's tut on how to make a basic window is a good start.
hi chimpface9000 i dont really know how that will help me at all. i know how to create gui interfaces. i would like to get ahold of some asm source code to see how the author goes about everything involved with communication and such.
You need to know how the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) works, search for some RFC's on NNTP.
here's the first hit on google :grin: :
http://jakarta.apache.org/james/rfclist/rfc977.txt
and you need ofcourse some winsock knowledge to start coding your newsreader
good luck :alright:
here's the first hit on google :grin: :
http://jakarta.apache.org/james/rfclist/rfc977.txt
and you need ofcourse some winsock knowledge to start coding your newsreader
good luck :alright:
i now see you point chipface9000. the fact that i want to create my own newsreader doesnt mean i want to recreate the wheel. its always alot easier to cut and paste though =)
What's the point in creating "Your own" news reader if you just
want to copy and paste? :confused:
want to copy and paste? :confused:
Here is some source to a newsreader I began writing and didn't ever finish. It's pretty buggy but it implements NNTP pretty solid I think. I hope it helps you some.
LOL f0dder settle down i was just kidding :grin:
thank you rdaneel just what i was looking for!
thank you rdaneel just what i was looking for!
Smurf,
I read the NNTP RFC and got the basics of the protocol from that but there are some things that will make it easier on you that aren't in the base NNTP spec. Extensions like XOVER and things like that. What I did that helped a lot was to crank up a sniffer like Ethereal and record a session with a good newsreader like Agent and just look at the plain text commands and responses and see how they are doing things. This helps greatly. Just a suggestion.
I read the NNTP RFC and got the basics of the protocol from that but there are some things that will make it easier on you that aren't in the base NNTP spec. Extensions like XOVER and things like that. What I did that helped a lot was to crank up a sniffer like Ethereal and record a session with a good newsreader like Agent and just look at the plain text commands and responses and see how they are doing things. This helps greatly. Just a suggestion.
extensions like XOVER should surely be described in an extension RFC?
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