WTVP/Services/wtv-news/URLs
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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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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") |
| 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? |