Private & Secure
Newsgroup
Connections
Newsguy
provides additional
privacy and security
for members
connecting to
newsgroups through
our web interface,
Direct Read News™,
with HTTP+SSL.
HTTP+SSL (secure
socket layers)
allows you to
connect to Newsguy's
servers by simply
inserting the letter
"s" in your URL when
you first enter the
newsgroups.
Before using
HTTP+SSL, you should
download and install
Newsguy's secure
certificate. To do
this, simply go to
https://acc.newsguy.com/newsguy.crt,
click "Open", select
"Install" and follow
the "Next" prompt to
install the
certificate. This
only needs to be
done once. If you're
receiving a
certificate message
from your browser
while using Direct
Read News with SSL,
please follow the
previous
instructions to
download and install
the certificate.
Once you've
loaded any page
within Direct Read
News, just add an
"s" after "http" in
your browser's
address line. As an
example, you first
enter the newsgroup
newsguy.general at:
http://drn.newsguy.com/news-bin/wwwnews?newsguy.general
To change to
HHTP+SSL, just
insert an "s" after
"http" so the URL
then looks like:
https://drn.newsguy.com/news-bin/wwwnews?newsguy.general
You will
only need to do this
once at the
beginning of each
session and all
pages you access
within Direct Read
News after that will
carry forward the
secure connection. |
