Re: nntplib and ssl

2010-10-25 Thread Steve Holden
On 10/25/2010 7:26 AM, Andrew wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:23:31 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:02:07 -0400 >> Andrew 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 co

Re: nntplib and ssl

2010-10-25 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:23:31 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:02:07 -0400 > Andrew 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 othe

Re: nntplib and ssl

2010-10-22 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:02:07 -0400 Andrew 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 n

nntplib and ssl

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew
I'm working on a personal project that, among other things, needs to talk to a news server. 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