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URLs for wtv-news WTVP service.

{| class="wikitable"
! URL || Description || Methods Supported || wtv-token Present? || Notes
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| <nowiki>wtv-news:/lobby</nowiki> || Discuss index. Shows featured discussion groups (newsgroups) and related options || GET, POST || No || On post preview pages, an invisible HTML form is injected. This form <code>POST</code>s to this URL with a "hasRead" parameter. This is speculated to mark the post being viewed as read. Need more documentation on this
|-
| <nowiki>wtv-news:/news?group=xxxxx</nowiki> || Page for discussion group specified in "group" query parameter. Need more documentation on this || GET || No ||
|-
| <nowiki>wtv-news:/news?group=xxxxx&chunk=NN</nowiki> || Pagination for discussion group posts. Need more documentation on this || GET || No ||
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| <nowiki>wtv-news:/news?group=xxxxx&article=NN</nowiki> || Previews discussion post as specified in "article" query parameter (observed to be a number) on target discussion group ("group" query parameter). Need more documentation on this || GET || No ||
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| <nowiki>wtv-news:/news?group=xxxxx&article=NN#nextnew</nowiki> || Takes user to next unread post in target discussion group. Need more documentation on this || GET || No ||
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| <nowiki>wtv-news:/forward?article=NN&group=xxxxx</nowiki> || Speculated to allow a subscriber/user to forward a discussion group post from WebTV. Need more documentation on this || ??? || Yes ||
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| <nowiki>wtv-news:/mime?group=xxxxx&article=NN&message_part_offset=NN&message_part_length=NN&wtv-title=xxxxx</nowiki> || Appears to be used for discussion group attachments. Need more documentation on this || GET || ? || "message_part_offset" and "message_part_length" are integers. "wtv-title" appears to be the attachment name. "message_stationery" and "Name" are also observed variables (http://turdinc.kicks-ass.net/Msntv/ulTRAX/matttricks.htm; "Previewer Secrets")
|-
| <nowiki>wtv-news:/news?search=xxxxx</nowiki> || Performs a search for discussion groups || GET || No ||
|-
| <nowiki>wtv-news:/news?category=NN</nowiki> || Previews all discussion groups in Discuss. Need more documentation on this || GET || No ||
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| <nowiki>wtv-news:/news?browse=xxxxx</nowiki> || Previews a subset of a discussion group tree. Need more documentation on this || GET || No ||
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| <nowiki>wtv-news:/map?map=xxxxx&mapType=mBranch</nowiki> || Shows a directory tree of the discussion group subset. Need more documentation on this || GET || Yes || What does "mapType" do?
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