An NNTP (news) Client package for go (golang). Forked from nntp-go to bring it up to date.
- added IHAVE command
- use XOVER if OVER is unrecognized
- set overview.Bytes to 0 if bytes value is empty
- set overview.Lines to 0 if lines value is empty
// connect to news server
conn, err := nntp.Dial("tcp", "news.example.com:119")
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("connection failed: %v", err)
}
// auth
if err := conn.Authenticate("user", "pass"); err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Could not authenticate")
}
// connect to a news group
grp := "alt.binaries.pictures"
_, l, _, err := conn.Group(grp)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Could not connect to group %s: %v %d", grp, err, l)
}
// fetch an article
id := "<4c1c18ec$0$8490$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>"
article, err := conn.Article(id)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Could not fetch article %s: %v", id, err)
}
// read the article contents
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(article.Body)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("error reading reader: %v", err)
}