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Fix for SF bug #123625: some newsservers need 'authinfo' *before* 'mode

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readers', others *after*. (Netscape Collabra for the first category,
INN-which-forks-nnrpd for the second.)
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Thomas Wouters 2001-01-16 06:35:14 +00:00
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Lib/nntplib.py
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@ -112,12 +112,25 @@ class NNTP:
self.file = self.sock.makefile('rb')
self.debugging = 0
self.welcome = self.getresp()
# 'mode reader' is sometimes necessary to enable 'reader' mode.
# However, the order in which 'mode reader' and 'authinfo' need to
# arrive differs between some NNTP servers. Try to send
# 'mode reader', and if it fails with an authorization failed
# error, try again after sending authinfo.
readermode_afterauth = 0
if readermode:
try:
self.welcome = self.shortcmd('mode reader')
except NNTPPermanentError:
# error 500, probably 'not implemented'
pass
except NNTPTemporaryError, e:
if user and e.response[:3] == '480':
# Need authorization before 'mode reader'
readermode_afterauth = 1
else:
raise
if user:
resp = self.shortcmd('authinfo user '+user)
if resp[:3] == '381':
@ -128,6 +141,13 @@ class NNTP:
'authinfo pass '+password)
if resp[:3] != '281':
raise NNTPPermanentError(resp)
if readermode_afterauth:
try:
self.welcome = self.shortcmd('mode reader')
except NNTPPermanentError:
# error 500, probably 'not implemented'
pass
# Get the welcome message from the server
# (this is read and squirreled away by __init__()).