[issue1926] NNTPS support in nntplib

2010-11-06 Thread StevenJ
StevenJ added the comment: The only comment I have is, if the caller needs to organise when to auth and instigate tls then for completeness getcapabilities() should have an option to force a reget of the current capabilities, in line with rfc3977 5.2.2: > An NNTP client MAY cache the resu

[issue1926] NNTPS support in nntplib

2010-11-04 Thread StevenJ
StevenJ added the comment: Hi Julien, >> I also don't understand why START_TLS and AUTHINFO need to change >> how the module is interfaced to (separating log in/authentication, etc) > Because once you have used AUTHINFO, STARTTLS is no longer a valid > command in a sess

[issue1926] NNTPS support in nntplib

2010-11-03 Thread StevenJ
StevenJ added the comment: I too was just looking at NNTPS support because I have a need for it. The latest patch looks like great work and I think the things it implements are needed for this library. But it seems to me that the latest patch combines 3 things which might otherwise be able