URLs for wtv-news WTVP service.
| URL |
Description |
Methods Supported |
wtv-token Present? |
Notes
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| wtv-news:/lobby |
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 POSTs to this URL with a "hasRead" parameter. This is speculated to mark the post being viewed as read. Need more documentation on this
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| wtv-news:/news?group=xxxxx |
Page for discussion group specified in "group" query parameter. Need more documentation on this |
GET |
No |
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| wtv-news:/news?group=xxxxx&chunk=NN |
Pagination for discussion group posts. Need more documentation on this |
GET |
No |
|
| wtv-news:/news?group=xxxxx&article=NN |
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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| wtv-news:/news?group=xxxxx&article=NN#nextnew |
Takes user to next unread post in target discussion group. Need more documentation on this |
GET |
No |
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| wtv-news:/forward?article=NN&group=xxxxx |
Speculated to allow a subscriber/user to forward a discussion group post from WebTV. Need more documentation on this |
??? |
Yes |
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| wtv-news:/mime?group=xxxxx&article=NN&message_part_offset=NN&message_part_length=NN&wtv-title=xxxxx |
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")
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| wtv-news:/news?search=xxxxx |
Performs a search for discussion groups |
GET |
No |
|
| wtv-news:/news?category=NN |
Previews all discussion groups in Discuss. Need more documentation on this |
GET |
No |
|
| wtv-news:/news?browse=xxxxx |
Previews a subset of a discussion group tree. Need more documentation on this |
GET |
No |
|
| wtv-news:/map?map=xxxxx&mapType=mBranch |
Shows a directory tree of the discussion group subset. Need more documentation on this |
GET |
Yes |
What does "mapType" do?
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