On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:23:31 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:02:07 -0400 > Andrew <n...@none.com> wrote: >> >> Python's nntplib seems ideal for my purposes, but as far as I can see it >> doesn't support nntps connections. If I understand nntp correctly (I may >> not) that means, among other things, it sends passwords in cleartext. >> >> That won't do. I note that python has a separate ssl module but I must >> admit I'm at a loss as to how to fit the two together. I'm working from the >> Python 3.1.2 documentation, page noted here: > > There's an issue open for this: > http://bugs.python.org/issue1926
I found that but noted it was dated for a few years ago. Of course like an idiot I didn't scroll down the page and see that it was still active as of last month. > A patch is there, but it's totally outdated. If you're interested, you > could provide a new patch against py3k SVN (that is, the next 3.2, > although the deadline for new features is in a couple of weeks). I'd say I'm interested...but despite not being too terrible a programmer, I've never written and submitted a patch for anything in my life and have no idea how to go about it. ;-) I suppose google could solve that problem. > It's probably not very difficult to write such a patch. You mostly need > to wrap the connection in an SSL socket, then give that socket to the > NNTP connection class. Details will be found out by studying the > nntplib code. I might take a crack at it if I can figure out how. Thanks for the help. -- Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
