keyserver access on Win2k

[Leigh S. Jones, KR6X]

Thanks!  That's interesting information.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timo Schulz" <timo@lcsweb.net>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 07:43
Subject: Re: keyserver access on Win2k


> On Thu Apr 25 2002; 07:17, Leigh S. Jones wrote:
> 
> > I was having trouble making gpg for W32 talk to keyservers on both
> > winnt and win2k.  Probably would have had the same problem on
> > win9x.  Linux worked fine.  It's probably a protocol problem.  You
> 
> This problem only occures on WNT/W2K machines, with W9X it works.
> We used the newer Winsock library (V2) but it doesn't seem that this
> solved the problem. But we're working on a solution for NT based
> operating systems.
> 
> 
> >  Worked it out when I let WinPT take over for me calling gpg and 
> > suddenly there were keyservers that worked...
> 
> WinPT does *not* call GPG for keyserver requests. It has its own code 
> for talking to HKP keyservers. That is why it also works on WNT/W2K.
> 
> 
>         Timo
> 
> 
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