Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Hello Julien,
> That's one of the reasons why AUTHINFO SASL is better than AUTHINFO > USER. It also allows whitespaces (a few news servers do not parse > well whitespaces in user names or passwords after AUTHINFO USER/PASS > -- imagine " test" with a leading space). Solved with SASL. If you want to contribute SASL auth for NNTP, it might make sense to have a dedicated module to provide SASL mechanisms (and then let imaplib reuse that module). Of course, not all mechanisms need to be provided at the start. (FWIW, I had written a patch providing generic SASL support for Twisted years ago: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2015 ) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10284> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
