[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86441 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_nntplib.py

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/13/2010 7:08 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:31:49 -0500
> Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu>  wrote:
>>
>>>        class NetworkedNNTP_SSLTests(NetworkedNNTPTestsMixin, unittest.TestCase):
>>> -        NNTP_HOST = 'snews.gmane.org'
>>> -        GROUP_NAME = 'gmane.comp.python.devel'
>>> -        GROUP_PAT = 'gmane.comp.python.d*'
>>
>> gmane is most problematical on weekends.
>
> Well we've had buildbot failures in the middle of the week.

Why I did not say 'only' ;-).

>>> +        NNTP_HOST = 'nntp.aioe.org'
>>> +        GROUP_NAME = 'comp.lang.python'
>>> +        GROUP_PAT = 'comp.lang.*'
>>
>> aioe went away for several months a couple of years ago or so.
>> Let us hope it stays up for awhile now.
>> The ssl connection currently does not work (expired certificate).

More specifically, if, with Thunderbird, I turn on SSL/TLS, (which 
switches from port 119 to 563), I get *invalid* certificate message - 
good for aioe.org, news.aioe,org, but not nntp.aioe.org. I believe SSL 
worked before the hiatus so it might be an oversight in restarting.

> Funny, it shows that the NNTP SSL tests don't check the certificate,
> then.

Or not thoroughly.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy