[issue10284] NNTP should accept bytestrings for username and password
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Nov 13 00:44:25 CET 2010
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
Hello Julien,
> That's one of the reasons why AUTHINFO SASL is better than AUTHINFO
> USER. It also allows whitespaces (a few news servers do not parse
> well whitespaces in user names or passwords after AUTHINFO USER/PASS
> -- imagine " test" with a leading space). Solved with SASL.
If you want to contribute SASL auth for NNTP, it might make sense to
have a dedicated module to provide SASL mechanisms (and then let imaplib
reuse that module). Of course, not all mechanisms need to be provided at
the start.
(FWIW, I had written a patch providing generic SASL support for Twisted
years ago: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/2015 )
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