It was not until today that I found that Jochen cranked out a new NNTP Bridge that uses the REST API in the beginning of the year.
I downloaded and installed it, got the newsgroup list and subscribed to the forums that I monitor. I then asked about the group counts, and this sparked some activity from the bridge. As I understand it, tbe bridge needs to download information about every
post, so it can number them.
Jochen notes on
https://communitybridge3.codeplex.com/ that this can take some time. After a couple of hours, it seemed to have completed one very small forum, and for the rest it was doing the same operations. I open the debug window, and there were crashes galore. I
did not check them in details, but at least some seemed to be timeouts.
Not entirely surprising, as I have noted that getting articles from forums can be quite slow with the old bridge as well, and it is likely that this is a backend problem, so whether it's SOAP or REST does not really matter.
Anyway, I'm just curious about what everyone else uses. Are you using Bridge 3 and think that works better for you? Or have you like me never heard of it before?
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
