> So I have established a connection to an nntp server and I am > retrieving articles to other articles on the server such as > news://newsclip.ap.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Now I am wondering how I query for that article based off of the url? > > I assume D8L4MFAG0 is an id of some sort but when I try and retrieve > that article via myNntpObject.article('D8L4MFAG0') I get an error of > 423 Bad article number. Which makes sense as all the other article > numbers are integers. > > D8L4MFAG0 actually looks like a doc-id value for an NITF article > stored on the NNTP server which I am retrieving content off of. > > Anyone have any ideas on how I fetch this content?
Have a look at the 'Message-ID' header of articles on the server. They usually start and end with "<" and end with ">". An example from comp.lang.python: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You probably got the "423 Bad article number" error because there wasn't a "<" and ">" in your message ID, so it tried to parse it as an article number instead. I couldn't check your example because newsclip.ap.org requires a login. David. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
