DanArmak comments on Turning the Technical Crank - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 05 April 2016 09:41:14PM * 1 point [-]

Are there no reasonably sized javascript libraries that can be loaded as an in browser nntp client?

In-browser javascript can't open TCP connections, so it can't talk to real NNTP servers. It can only use websockets, aka tcp-over-http.

If you also happen to be running an HTTP server, you can use a websocket-to-tcp bridge like websockify.

Why exactly do you want an in-browser nntp client?

Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 April 2016 06:33:33AM 1 point [-]

A number of comments expressed that getting people to install nntp clients was probably a non-starter. A browser client is all you're going to get.

A javascript client seemed like a solution to that.

Comment author: Error 06 April 2016 01:35:14PM 2 points [-]

It is a non-starter, but there are ways to get the equivalent of a client in a web browser without using javascript to do it.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 07 April 2016 03:10:58AM 1 point [-]

So what's the best solution you have for the problem?