Best NNTP lib?

ruby-talk
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Hello, all.

I think I’ve heard of at least four NNTP libraries in Ruby –
two in the RAA, and (I think) another two not therein.

I just want to specify a server and a newsgroup (and another
field or two), and then post a message with an optional
attachment.

So what’s the way to go?

Hal

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The lib by nazgul in RAA contains several bugs:

  • sock_disconnect never called (gives a nice out of file
    descriptors after ~500 connections in Linux…)
  • splitting in article modifies article (AFAIR “empty” lines)
  • . at beginning of body text line not handled correctly
  • newnews doesn’t work with 4 digit year server
  • CR+LF vs. LF handling not consistent in all functions
  • listgroup misses call parameter forwarding(?)
  • sock_readline: select/timeout not pretty
  • …

IMHO

Either a line by line audit or a rewrite from scratch is needed -
I wanted to do the last option for months but never got around
doing it…

Martin

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Hal Fulton hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote:

I think I’ve heard of at least four NNTP libraries in Ruby –
two in the RAA, and (I think) another two not therein.