[Gilby]

Originally posted by winkler1
Great hack. We had difficulty getting lynx to invoke gateway.php properly - it would return the forum main page, although we'd visited the site w/lynx to get cookied. Log files show an HTTP/1.0 request; viewing gateway.php with IE5 is an HTTP/1.1, and works fine... any ideas? I just wrote a windows app in the meantime with an embedded IE control on a cron.

I don't understand your problem. If gateway.php is executed, then it'll import and export the newsgroup posts. However, with the added logging variable in the url that I have in the example, it will not output anything, unless there is a major error, in which case if this is a linux/unix setup, it'll send an email to the cronjob owner.

Originally posted by winkler1

Here's a wierd case - at Time1) user posts to vbulletin, and at Time2) gateway.php ships the msg to news server..then @Time3) the user edits the message. Does the new content ever get repropagated? My tests indicate not. Sorry if this is an FAQ, 'edit' is a lousy search term!
Jeff

It does not repropogate it. The message may have replies and cancelling the message and reposting it would break the threads. What I do on my forums is set it up to have a low edit time and leave it at that.