GPA and hkps

[John]

"Werner Koch" <wk at gnupg.org> wrote in message 
news:<87lijbfbzk.fsf__7982.15741892836$1340651488$gmane$org at vigenere.g10code.de>...
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:22, jw72253 at verizon.net said:
>
> > message when I use GPA to try retrieving a key. The message states
> > this: "There is no plugin available for the keyserver protocol you
> > specified." What am I missing? Thanks.
>
> IIRC, GPA has no support for "hpks".  You need to use "hkp".  For
> historical reasons GPA uses GnuPG's key server helper programs directly
> and has not been updated to allow for TLS encrypted connections.

Werner, hello.

If GPA has no support for hkps, what commands should be used on the command 
line with gpg, given what I have already indicated? Thanks.

John