Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > > * the command-line option for the SSLContext won't work, since a > > context is a custom object, not a string; I would rework this part > > anyway, since I don't think separate options for the "SSL host" are > > useful (I'd rather add a SSL-enabling flag; also, STARTTLS can be > > queried from the capabilities) > > I'm not sure I understand which part you're talking about here....the > tests don't take a context for anything that I can see, and the > mechanism I use in nntplib (a context as a named argument) is the > same one used in smtplib and poplib for <prot>_SSL.
I'm talking about the code under "if __name__ == '__main__'". Specifically the "-c" option for specifying an SSL context. > > * in test_starttls, I would clearly report that the server doesn't > > support STARTTLS, e.g.: > > Can do. I didn't know about self.skip; I don't really understand the > testing framework, I was just working by comparison to the other > tests. Well, actually it's "self.skipTest(...)". My bad. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1926> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
