nntp

Documentation

Overview

Package nntp provides some common operations on nntp server, mostly for binary downloading

Index

• Variables
• type Conn
  • func Dial(address, user, pass string) (*Conn, error)
  • func DialTLS(address, user, pass string) (*Conn, error)
  • func (n *Conn) Close() error
  • func (n *Conn) GetMessage(msgId string) ([]byte, error)

Variables

var ErrAlreadyClosed = errors.New("conn already closed")

Types

type Conn

type Conn struct {
	*textproto.Conn
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Conn represents a NNTP connection

func Dial

func Dial(address, user, pass string) (*Conn, error)

Dial will establish a connection to a NNTP server. It returns the connection and an error, if any

func DialTLS

func DialTLS(address, user, pass string) (*Conn, error)

func (*Conn) Close

func (n *Conn) Close() error

func (*Conn) GetMessage

func (n *Conn) GetMessage(msgId string) ([]byte, error)

GetMessage will retrieve a message from the server, using the supplied msgId. It returns the contents of the message and an error, if any