POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Security issue of news.povray.org : Re: Security issue of news.povray.org Server Time
20 May 2024 14:46:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Security issue of news.povray.org  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 15 Sep 2018 02:41:25
Message: <5b9ca995@news.povray.org>
On 15-9-2018 0:35, Kenneth wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>> On 14/09/2018 19:47, Chris Cason wrote:
>>
>> ...Hopefully this won't have any unintended side-effects as
>>> there's several other server rules that apply to that path. If you see
>>> anything misbehaving please let me know.
>>>
>>> -- Chris
>>>
>>
>> Sorry
>>
>>
>> The connection has timed out
>>
>> The server at www.povray.org is taking too long to respond.
>>
> 
> That's strange; everything is working OK for me. I tested both the original
> unsecured
>         http://news.povray.org/groups/
> page, and the new secured one.  (That's generally how I get to the newsgroups.)
> In both cases, when I fire-up a fresh Firefox, go to the 'groups' page, then go
> to this particular message thread and log-in to leave a message (this one, in
> fact!), the log-in page is now secure, and with no time-out. I also tried going
> *directly* to an old POV-Ray message thread that I bookmarked-- thus by-passing
> any other newsgroup related web pages-- and the new scheme still works.
> 
> [I have Firefox set to erase passwords and such when I exit it , if that has
> anything to do with the problem. I don't keep the program active all the time.]
> 
> Or maybe it's a web-portal vs. newsreader problem?
> 

Same here. It works without a glitch.

Be sure to delete the 'old' addresses to avoid confusion in you 
bookmarks file.


-- 
Thomas


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.