# # $Id: nntp.pm,v 1.9 2003/10/23 19:11:33 uid39246 Exp $ # Implementation of the Network News Transfer Protocol (RFC 977) # package LWP::Protocol::nntp; require LWP::Protocol; @ISA = qw(LWP::Protocol); require LWP::Debug; require HTTP::Response; require HTTP::Status; require Net::NNTP; use strict; sub request { my($self, $request, $proxy, $arg, $size, $timeout) = @_; LWP::Debug::trace('()'); $size = 4096 unless $size; # Check for proxy if (defined $proxy) { return HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_BAD_REQUEST, 'You can not proxy through NNTP'); } # Check that the scheme is as expected my $url = $request->url; my $scheme = $url->scheme; unless ($scheme eq 'news') { return HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, "LWP::Protocol::nntp::request called for '$scheme'"); } # check for a valid method my $method = $request->method; unless ($method eq 'GET' || $method eq 'HEAD' || $method eq 'POST') { return HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_BAD_REQUEST, 'Library does not allow method ' . "$method for 'news:' URLs"); } # extract the identifier and check against posting to an article my $groupart = $url->_group; my $is_art = $groupart =~ /@/; if ($is_art && $method eq 'POST') { return HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_BAD_REQUEST, "Can't post to an article <$groupart>"); } my $nntp = Net::NNTP->new(undef, #Port => 18574, Timeout => $timeout, #Debug => 1, ); die "Can't connect to nntp server" unless $nntp; # Check the initial welcome message from the NNTP server if ($nntp->status != 2) { return HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE, $nntp->message); } my $response = HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_OK, "OK"); my $mess = $nntp->message; LWP::Debug::debug($mess); # Try to extract server name from greating message. # Don't know if this works well for a large class of servers, but # this works for our server. $mess =~ s/\s+ready\b.*//; $mess =~ s/^\S+\s+//; $response->header(Server => $mess); # First we handle posting of articles if ($method eq 'POST') { return HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "POST not implemented yet"); } # The method must be "GET" or "HEAD" by now if (!$is_art) { if (!$nntp->group($groupart)) { return HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_NOT_FOUND, $nntp->message); } return HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "GET newsgroup not implemented yet"); } # Send command to server to retrieve an article (or just the headers) my $get = $method eq 'HEAD' ? "head" : "article"; my $art = $nntp->$get("<$groupart>"); unless ($art) { return HTTP::Response->new(&HTTP::Status::RC_NOT_FOUND, $nntp->message); } LWP::Debug::debug($nntp->message); # Parse headers my($key, $val); while ($_ = shift @$art) { if (/^\s+$/) { last; # end of headers } elsif (/^(\S+):\s*(.*)/) { $response->push_header($key, $val) if $key; ($key, $val) = ($1, $2); } elsif (/^\s+(.*)/) { next unless $key; $val .= $1; } else { unshift(@$art, $_); last; } } $response->push_header($key, $val) if $key; # Ensure that there is a Content-Type header $response->header("Content-Type", "text/plain") unless $response->header("Content-Type"); # Collect the body $response = $self->collect_once($arg, $response, join("", @$art)) if @$art; # Say godbye to the server $nntp->quit; $nntp = undef; $response; } 1;