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 <n...@none.com> 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 note that python has a separate ssl module but I must >>> admit I'm at a loss as to how to fit the two together. I'm working from the >>> Python 3.1.2 documentation, page noted here: >> >> There's an issue open for this: >> http://bugs.python.org/issue1926 > > I found that but noted it was dated for a few years ago. Of course like an > idiot I didn't scroll down the page and see that it was still active as of > last month. > >> A patch is there, but it's totally outdated. If you're interested, you >> could provide a new patch against py3k SVN (that is, the next 3.2, >> although the deadline for new features is in a couple of weeks). > > I'd say I'm interested...but despite not being too terrible a programmer, > I've never written and submitted a patch for anything in my life and have > no idea how to go about it. ;-) I suppose google could solve that problem. > >> It's probably not very difficult to write such a patch. You mostly need >> to wrap the connection in an SSL socket, then give that socket to the >> NNTP connection class. Details will be found out by studying the >> nntplib code. > > I might take a crack at it if I can figure out how. Thanks for the help. > You might find helpful information at
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