XanaNews HTTP Transport Server

XanaNews HTTP is an NT/Windows2000/Windows XP service designed to transport the NNTP protocol using HTTP on port 80.  It doesn't work with Windows 95 or Windows 98.

It is designed to allow you to use newsgroups that would otherwise be inaccessible because of your ISP or companies firewall policy.

Please note that you should always seek permission from your ISP or network administrator before using the XanaNews HTTP Transport Server.

Generally, network administrators will give permission if you can show them a good case for letting you access newsgroups, and they will often prefer you to use a tunnelling solution, rather than having to change their policies for everyone.

But if you use XanaNews HTTP Transport without asking permission, you may get fired for breaching company network policy! So pay particular attention to the Mozilla public licence under which this software is released - particularly the bit that says:

| Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" 
| basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See 
| the License for the specific language governing rights and 
| limitations under the License.

You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/

XanaNews HTTP Transport Server should work with most Windows newsreaders, but of course I recommend you use XanaNews!

Version 1.0.0.0 released 13th September 2003.  Please see the read me file for details of what's new.

Installing XanaNews HTTP Transport Server
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1. You need to install two copies - one on the computer behind the firewall, and one on a computer with full access to the internet.

2. To install XanaNews HTTP Transport Server on the computer with full access to the internet:

- Copy the program to a directory on the computer.
- From a command prompt within the directory type 'XanaNewsTransport -install'
- Start the service by typing 'net start XanaNewsTransport'
- Double-click on the XanaNews Transport Service icon at the bottom-right of your screen, and select Tools/Options from the menu. Click the 'Server' tab and check the 'Enable HTTP Transport Server' checkbox.

3. To install XanaNews HTTP Transport Server on the computer behind the firewall:

- Copy the program to a directory on the computer.
- From a command prompt within the directory type 'XanaNewsTransport -install'
- Start the service by typing 'net start XanaNewsTransport'
- Double-click on the XanaNews Transport Service icon at the bottom-right of your screen, and select Tools/Options from the menu.

- On the Clients tab, add a new entry for each news server you want to connect to. Each one must have it's own unique port number. Start at 1191, then use 1192 for the next one, etc.

* The 'Name' can be any name which identifies the tunnel.
* The Port should be a unique number.
* The Transport Server URL should be 'http://' followed by the name of your server you set up in step '2' - eg. http://www.xyz.homeip.net
* The Remote Server should be the name of the news server you want to connect to - eg. forums.talkto.net
* The Remote Port should be the port number that the remote server uses for NNTP. It's almost always 119.

4. Configure your newsreader client on your computer behind the firewall as follows:

* The server name should be 'localhost'
* The port number should be set to the unique port number you chose in '3' above.
* If the server needs a use ID and password, enter them as usual.