Re: Connection fails

[Ted Zlatanov]

On 17 Sep 2009 09:49:55 -0500 reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu (Edward M. Reingold) 
wrote: 

EMR> Indeed, that server is defined in my .emacs and is not 
EMR> editable.  Here is what I have in the .emacs:

EMR> (setq nntp-ssl-program "/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 
-connect %s:%p")
EMR> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.acm.uiuc.edu"))
EMR> (setq nntp-authinfo-user "reingold")
EMR> (setq nntp-authinfo-password "XXXXXXX")
EMR> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
EMR>       '((nntp "news.cs.illinois.edu"
EMR>               (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-ssl-stream)
EMR>               (nntp-port-number 563)
EMR>               (nntp-address "news.cs.illinois.edu")
EMR>               (nntp-authinfo-user "reingold")
EMR>               (nntp-authinfo-password "XXXXXXXX"))))

EMR> I think this is as per the manual, but it doesn't work for the 
EMR> news.cs.illinois.edu server (the other is just fine).  What do I do to fix 
it?

Hi Ed,

Sorry for the delay; as I mentioned it's been busy for me and I wasn't
able to get to your issue sooner.

With news.cs.illinois.edu, I was able to open a SSL connection from my
machine with all default settings (no nntp-ssl-program needed to be
set).  I just specified:

      (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-ssl-stream)
      (nntp-port-number 563)

The nntp-address doesn't need to be specified if the method name is the
same.

and the user name and password came from my authinfo file (they were
rejected, of course).  The process running was 

openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect news.cs.illinois.edu 563

so I think maybe we had nntp-ssl-program wrong here, the ':' between
server and port in particular.

Ted