nntplib retrieve news://FULL_URL

[James.Pells]

So I have established a connection to an nntp server and I am
retrieving articles to other articles on the server such as
news://newsclip.ap.org/D8*******@news.ap.org

Now I am wondering how I query for that article based off of the url?

I assume D8L4MFAG0 is an id of some sort but when I try and retrieve
that article via myNntpObject.article('D8L4MFAG0') I get an error of
423 Bad article number. Which makes sense as all the other article
numbers are integers.

D8L4MFAG0 actually looks like a doc-id value for an NITF article
stored on the NNTP server which I am retrieving content off of.

Anyone have any ideas on how I fetch this content?

Jimmy

[David]

So I have established a connection to an nntp server and I am

retrieving articles to other articles on the server such as
news://newsclip.ap.org/D8*******@news.ap.org

Now I am wondering how I query for that article based off of the url?

I assume D8L4MFAG0 is an id of some sort but when I try and retrieve
that article via myNntpObject.article('D8L4MFAG0') I get an error of
423 Bad article number. Which makes sense as all the other article
numbers are integers.

D8L4MFAG0 actually looks like a doc-id value for an NITF article
stored on the NNTP server which I am retrieving content off of.

Anyone have any ideas on how I fetch this content?

Have a look at the 'Message-ID' header of articles on the server. They
usually start and end with "<" and end with ">".

An example from comp.lang.python:

<ma**************************************@python.o rg>

You probably got the "423 Bad article number" error because there
wasn't a "<" and ">" in your message ID, so it tried to parse it as an
article number instead.

I couldn't check your example because newsclip.ap.org requires a login.

David.

[Nemesis]

Ja*********@gmail.com wrote:

So I have established a connection to an nntp server and I am
retrieving articles to other articles on the server such as
news://newsclip.ap.org/D8*******@news.ap.org

Now I am wondering how I query for that article based off of the url?

I assume D8L4MFAG0 is an id of some sort but when I try and retrieve
that article via myNntpObject.article('D8L4MFAG0') I get an error of
423 Bad article number. Which makes sense as all the other article
numbers are integers.

You should study a little bit NNTP RFCs ;-)
Anyway D8*******@news.ap.org could be the Message-ID of the article, a 'unique'
identifier associated to each article, while the Article Number is unique on
the server (but it changes on different servers).

the nntplib NNTP.article command can accept either Message-ID or Number as
argument, but if you want to use Message-ID you need to enclose it in brackets
<>.

So in your case this query should work:

myNntpObject.article('<D8*******@news.ap.org>')

Regards.
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