Bug in Winvn?

[Dirk Fieldhouse]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.000921...@paprika.michvhf.com>,
v...@michvhf.com says...
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>On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Lanny Fujishin wrote:
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>> I'm running Windows 98 and Winvn 0.99.9
>> I'm able to log in and view my newsgroup, but then after about 20 seconds,
>> I get an "NTTP has close connection" error and it says at the top of the
>> window "Winvn Function MRRRead com"
>> What can I do to alleviate this?
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>Not much. Your newsserver admin has set the server to a real short
>timeout most likely because of the netscapes and M$ newsreaders that
>open connections, and abandon them. I know that a few people have
>requested a keepalive in WinVN but AFAIR since it's against the NNTP
>protocol it wasn't done. You might try to get your admin to open up
>the timeout.

The MDS version (http://www.execpc.com/~mspankus/) has a keepalive
(Config/Communications). I'm not sure when this was added.

As it's equally against RFC (or should be) for the server to time out after
20s, this is an ideal occasion to configure a real (non-zero) keepalive in
WinVN.

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