New submission from Chris Morrow <ch...@as701.net>: nntplib.py on python2.5 is not IPv6 ready. The below patch at least makes connections on both ipv4 and ipv6 to servers.
This was taken out of bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue1664 if that helps... platform: Linux hostnamehere 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Fri Oct 17 14:52:14 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux morr...@tweezer:/tmp$ diff -U3 nntplib.py.orig nntplib.py --- nntplib.py.orig 2008-12-30 01:06:14.000000000 -0500 +++ nntplib.py 2008-12-30 01:07:33.000000000 -0500 @@ -109,8 +109,19 @@ """ self.host = host self.port = port - self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) - self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port)) + msg = "getaddrinfo returns an empty list" + for res in socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM): + af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res + sock = None + try: + self.sock = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto) + self.sock.connect(sa) + + except error, msg: + if self.sock is not None: + self.sock.close() + raise NNTPError, msg + self.file = self.sock.makefile('rb') self.debugging = 0 self.welcome = self.getresp() ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: nntplib.py-ipv6.patch keywords: patch messages: 78509 nosy: morrowc severity: normal status: open title: nntplib - python 2.5 type: behavior versions: Python 2.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12489/nntplib.py-ipv6.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4777> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
