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Net::NNTP(3pm)         Perl Programmers Reference Guide         Net::NNTP(3pm)

NAME
       Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class
SYNOPSIS
           use Net::NNTP;
           $nntp = Net::NNTP->new("some.host.name");
           $nntp->quit;
DESCRIPTION
       "Net::NNTP" is a class implementing a simple NNTP client in Perl as
       described in RFC977. "Net::NNTP" inherits its communication methods
       from "Net::Cmd"
CONSTRUCTOR
       new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ])
           This is the constructor for a new Net::NNTP object. "HOST" is the
           name of the remote host to which a NNTP connection is required. If
           not given then it may be passed as the "Host" option described
           below. If no host is passed then two environment variables are
           checked, first "NNTPSERVER" then "NEWSHOST", then "Net::Config" is
           checked, and if a host is not found then "news" is used.
           "OPTIONS" are passed in a hash like fashion, using key and value
           pairs.  Possible options are:
           Host - NNTP host to connect to. It may be a single scalar, as
           defined for the "PeerAddr" option in IO::Socket::INET, or a
           reference to an array with hosts to try in turn. The "host" method
           will return the value which was used to connect to the host.
           Timeout - Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for a response from the
           NNTP server, a value of zero will cause all IO operations to block.
           (default: 120)
           Debug - Enable the printing of debugging information to STDERR
           Reader - If the remote server is INN then initially the connection
           will be to nnrpd, by default "Net::NNTP" will issue a "MODE READER"
           command so that the remote server becomes innd. If the "Reader"
           option is given with a value of zero, then this command will not be
           sent and the connection will be left talking to nnrpd.
METHODS
       Unless otherwise stated all methods return either a true or false
       value, with true meaning that the operation was a success. When a
       method states that it returns a value, failure will be returned as
       undef or an empty list.
       article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] )
           Retrieve the header, a blank line, then the body (text) of the
           specified article.
           If "FH" is specified then it is expected to be a valid filehandle
           and the result will be printed to it, on success a true value will
           be returned. If "FH" is not specified then the return value, on
           success, will be a reference to an array containing the article
           requested, each entry in the array will contain one line of the
           article.
           If no arguments are passed then the current article in the
           currently selected newsgroup is fetched.
           "MSGNUM" is a numeric id of an article in the current newsgroup,
           and will change the current article pointer.  "MSGID" is the
           message id of an article as shown in that article's header.  It is
           anticipated that the client will obtain the "MSGID" from a list
           provided by the "newnews" command, from references contained within
           another article, or from the message-id provided in the response to
           some other commands.
           If there is an error then "undef" will be returned.
       body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] )
           Like "article" but only fetches the body of the article.
       head ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] )
           Like "article" but only fetches the headers for the article.
       articlefh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] )
       bodyfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] )
       headfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] )
           These are similar to article(), body() and head(), but rather than
           returning the requested data directly, they return a tied
           filehandle from which to read the article.
       nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] )
           The "nntpstat" command is similar to the "article" command except
           that no text is returned.  When selecting by message number within
           a group, the "nntpstat" command serves to set the "current article
           pointer" without sending text.
           Using the "nntpstat" command to select by message-id is valid but
           of questionable value, since a selection by message-id does not
           alter the "current article pointer".
           Returns the message-id of the "current article".
       group ( [ GROUP ] )
           Set and/or get the current group. If "GROUP" is not given then
           information is returned on the current group.
           In a scalar context it returns the group name.
           In an array context the return value is a list containing, the
           number of articles in the group, the number of the first article,
           the number of the last article and the group name.
       ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ])
           The "ihave" command informs the server that the client has an
           article whose id is "MSGID".  If the server desires a copy of that
           article, and "MESSAGE" has been given the it will be sent.
           Returns true if the server desires the article and "MESSAGE" was
           successfully sent,if specified.
           If "MESSAGE" is not specified then the message must be sent using
           the "datasend" and "dataend" methods from Net::Cmd
           "MESSAGE" can be either an array of lines or a reference to an
           array.
       last ()
           Set the "current article pointer" to the previous article in the
           current newsgroup.
           Returns the message-id of the article.
       date ()
           Returns the date on the remote server. This date will be in a UNIX
           time format (seconds since 1970)
       postok ()
           "postok" will return true if the servers initial response indicated
           that it will allow posting.
       authinfo ( USER, PASS )
           Authenticates to the server (using AUTHINFO USER / AUTHINFO PASS)
           using the supplied username and password.  Please note that the
           password is sent in clear text to the server.  This command should
           not be used with valuable passwords unless the connection to the
           server is somehow protected.
       list ()
           Obtain information about all the active newsgroups. The results is
           a reference to a hash where the key is a group name and each value
           is a reference to an array. The elements in this array are:- the
           last article number in the group, the first article number in the
           group and any information flags about the group.
       newgroups ( SINCE [, DISTRIBUTIONS ])
           "SINCE" is a time value and "DISTRIBUTIONS" is either a
           distribution pattern or a reference to a list of distribution
           patterns.  The result is the same as "list", but the groups return
           will be limited to those created after "SINCE" and, if specified,
           in one of the distribution areas in "DISTRIBUTIONS".
       newnews ( SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]])
           "SINCE" is a time value. "GROUPS" is either a group pattern or a
           reference to a list of group patterns. "DISTRIBUTIONS" is either a
           distribution pattern or a reference to a list of distribution
           patterns.
           Returns a reference to a list which contains the message-ids of all
           news posted after "SINCE", that are in a groups which matched
           "GROUPS" and a distribution which matches "DISTRIBUTIONS".
       next ()
           Set the "current article pointer" to the next article in the
           current newsgroup.
           Returns the message-id of the article.
       post ( [ MESSAGE ] )
           Post a new article to the news server. If "MESSAGE" is specified
           and posting is allowed then the message will be sent.
           If "MESSAGE" is not specified then the message must be sent using
           the "datasend" and "dataend" methods from Net::Cmd
           "MESSAGE" can be either an array of lines or a reference to an
           array.
           The message, either sent via "datasend" or as the "MESSAGE"
           parameter, must be in the format as described by RFC822 and must
           contain From:, Newsgroups: and Subject: headers.
       postfh ()
           Post a new article to the news server using a tied filehandle.  If
           posting is allowed, this method will return a tied filehandle that
           you can print() the contents of the article to be posted.  You must
           explicitly close() the filehandle when you are finished posting the
           article, and the return value from the close() call will indicate
           whether the message was successfully posted.
       slave ()
           Tell the remote server that I am not a user client, but probably
           another news server.
       quit ()
           Quit the remote server and close the socket connection.
   Extension methods
       These methods use commands that are not part of the RFC977
       documentation. Some servers may not support all of them.
       newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] )
           Returns a reference to a hash where the keys are all the group
           names which match "PATTERN", or all of the groups if no pattern is
           specified, and each value contains the description text for the
           group.
       distributions ()
           Returns a reference to a hash where the keys are all the possible
           distribution names and the values are the distribution
           descriptions.
       subscriptions ()
           Returns a reference to a list which contains a list of groups which
           are recommended for a new user to subscribe to.
       overview_fmt ()
           Returns a reference to an array which contain the names of the
           fields returned by "xover".
       active_times ()
           Returns a reference to a hash where the keys are the group names
           and each value is a reference to an array containing the time the
           groups was created and an identifier, possibly an Email address, of
           the creator.
       active ( [ PATTERN ] )
           Similar to "list" but only active groups that match the pattern are
           returned.  "PATTERN" can be a group pattern.
       xgtitle ( PATTERN )
           Returns a reference to a hash where the keys are all the group
           names which match "PATTERN" and each value is the description text
           for the group.
       xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC )
           Obtain the header field "HEADER" for all the messages specified.
           The return value will be a reference to a hash where the keys are
           the message numbers and each value contains the text of the
           requested header for that message.
       xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC )
           The return value will be a reference to a hash where the keys are
           the message numbers and each value contains a reference to an array
           which contains the overview fields for that message.
           The names of the fields can be obtained by calling "overview_fmt".
       xpath ( MESSAGE-ID )
           Returns the path name to the file on the server which contains the
           specified message.
       xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC)
           The result is the same as "xhdr" except the is will be restricted
           to headers where the text of the header matches "PATTERN"
       xrover
           The XROVER command returns reference information for the article(s)
           specified.
           Returns a reference to a HASH where the keys are the message
           numbers and the values are the References: lines from the articles
       listgroup ( [ GROUP ] )
           Returns a reference to a list of all the active messages in
           "GROUP", or the current group if "GROUP" is not specified.
       reader
           Tell the server that you are a reader and not another server.
           This is required by some servers. For example if you are connecting
           to an INN server and you have transfer permission your connection
           will be connected to the transfer daemon, not the NNTP daemon.
           Issuing this command will cause the transfer daemon to hand over
           control to the NNTP daemon.
           Some servers do not understand this command, but issuing it and
           ignoring the response is harmless.
UNSUPPORTED
       The following NNTP command are unsupported by the package, and there
       are no plans to do so.
           AUTHINFO GENERIC
           XTHREAD
           XSEARCH
           XINDEX
DEFINITIONS
       MESSAGE-SPEC
           "MESSAGE-SPEC" is either a single message-id, a single message
           number, or a reference to a list of two message numbers.
           If "MESSAGE-SPEC" is a reference to a list of two message numbers
           and the second number in a range is less than or equal to the first
           then the range represents all messages in the group after the first
           message number.
           NOTE For compatibility reasons only with earlier versions of
           Net::NNTP a message spec can be passed as a list of two numbers,
           this is deprecated and a reference to the list should now be passed
       PATTERN
           The "NNTP" protocol uses the "WILDMAT" format for patterns.  The
           WILDMAT format was first developed by Rich Salz based on the format
           used in the UNIX "find" command to articulate file names. It was
           developed to provide a uniform mechanism for matching patterns in
           the same manner that the UNIX shell matches filenames.
           Patterns are implicitly anchored at the beginning and end of each
           string when testing for a match.
           There are five pattern matching operations other than a strict one-
           to-one match between the pattern and the source to be checked for a
           match.
           The first is an asterisk "*" to match any sequence of zero or more
           characters.
           The second is a question mark "?" to match any single character.
           The third specifies a specific set of characters.
           The set is specified as a list of characters, or as a range of
           characters where the beginning and end of the range are separated
           by a minus (or dash) character, or as any combination of lists and
           ranges. The dash can also be included in the set as a character it
           if is the beginning or end of the set. This set is enclosed in
           square brackets. The close square bracket "]" may be used in a set
           if it is the first character in the set.
           The fourth operation is the same as the logical not of the third
           operation and is specified the same way as the third with the
           addition of a caret character "^" at the beginning of the test
           string just inside the open square bracket.
           The final operation uses the backslash character to invalidate the
           special meaning of an open square bracket "[", the asterisk,
           backslash or the question mark. Two backslashes in sequence will
           result in the evaluation of the backslash as a character with no
           special meaning.
           Examples
           "[^]-]"
               matches any single character other than a close square bracket
               or a minus sign/dash.
           *bdc
               matches any string that ends with the string "bdc" including
               the string "bdc" (without quotes).
           "[0-9a-zA-Z]"
               matches any single printable alphanumeric ASCII character.
           "a??d"
               matches any four character string which begins with a and ends
               with d.
SEE ALSO
       Net::Cmd
AUTHOR
       Graham Barr <gbarr AT pobox.com>
COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1995-1997 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.  This program
       is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
       same terms as Perl itself.

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