nntp(news) through firewall proxy needed

[Joao Prado Maia]

On 14 May 2003, george young wrote:

> [python-2.3a1 x86 linux]
> I need to make a proxy news server that will accept a tcp connection
> from a newsreader, open a connection through a firewall to a real nntp
> server, and forward data between them.  It needs to support multiple
> connections (only a few), so I suppose either forking or threading is needed.
> 

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> Does anyone have such a beast, or have suggestion as to how to proceed?
> 
> Simplicity, not performance, is desired.
> 
> And, of course, python would be most fun, but any clean solution
> would float my boat...
> 

Papercut (http://papercut.org) has such a feature. Gerhard Häring 
contributed the forwarding proxy module to it a few months ago and it 
should work (or it should be easy to hack so it works again).

And Papercut is written in Python :)

Cheers,
Joao