Re: secnews.netscape.com?

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Amos Gouaux <amos+lists.ding@utdallas.edu> writes:

> Well, this was interesting.  I looked in the ding archive and
> noticed the maintainer of w3 stating that ssl-program-arguments
> shouldn't be modified.  Something about "s_client" no longer being
> valid with OpenSSL.

Right, OpenSSL used to ship a binary called `s_client', now it only
ship one binary `openssl' that take old binary names as the first
argument.

> !   (let* ((ssl-program-arguments '("-connect" (concat host ":" service)))
> !   (proc (open-ssl-stream "nntpd" buffer nntp-address nntp-port-number)))
...
> !   (let* ((ssl-program-arguments '("s_client" "-connect" (concat host ":" service)))
> !   (proc (open-ssl-stream "nntpd-ssl" buffer nntp-address nntp-port-number)))
>
> Now I'm able to login to secnews.netscape.com:563 without any problems.

The SSL stuff in nntp.el seem to be written for old OpenSSL, and you
have a new one.  Can you simply remove the line and see if it works?
I don't think nntp.el should mess with internal ssl variables unless
it's required. E.g.:

--- nntp.el.~6.8.~	Sun May  6 02:15:22 2001
+++ nntp.el	Wed May  9 21:28:48 2001
@@ -920,8 +920,7 @@
   (open-network-stream "nntpd" buffer nntp-address nntp-port-number))
 
 (defun nntp-open-ssl-stream (buffer)
-  (let* ((ssl-program-arguments '("-connect" (concat host ":" service)))
-	 (proc (open-ssl-stream "nntpd" buffer nntp-address nntp-port-number)))
+  (let ((proc (open-ssl-stream "nntpd" buffer nntp-address nntp-port-number)))
     (save-excursion
       (set-buffer buffer)
       (nntp-wait-for-string "^\r*20[01]")