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/*
 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package examples;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.Writer;
import org.apache.commons.net.io.Util;
import org.apache.commons.net.nntp.NNTPClient;
import org.apache.commons.net.nntp.NNTPReply;
import org.apache.commons.net.nntp.SimpleNNTPHeader;

/***
 * This is an example program using the NNTP package to post an article
 * to the specified newsgroup(s).  It prompts you for header information and
 * a filename to post.
 * 

***/ public final class post { public final static void main(String[] args) { String from, subject, newsgroup, filename, server, organization; String references; BufferedReader stdin; FileReader fileReader = null; SimpleNNTPHeader header; NNTPClient client; if (args.length < 1) { System.err.println("Usage: post newsserver"); System.exit(1); } server = args[0]; stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); try { System.out.print("From: "); System.out.flush(); from = stdin.readLine(); System.out.print("Subject: "); System.out.flush(); subject = stdin.readLine(); header = new SimpleNNTPHeader(from, subject); System.out.print("Newsgroup: "); System.out.flush(); newsgroup = stdin.readLine(); header.addNewsgroup(newsgroup); while (true) { System.out.print("Additional Newsgroup : "); System.out.flush(); // Of course you don't want to do this because readLine() may be null newsgroup = stdin.readLine().trim(); if (newsgroup.length() == 0) break; header.addNewsgroup(newsgroup); } System.out.print("Organization: "); System.out.flush(); organization = stdin.readLine(); System.out.print("References: "); System.out.flush(); references = stdin.readLine(); if (organization != null && organization.length() > 0) header.addHeaderField("Organization", organization); if (references != null && organization.length() > 0) header.addHeaderField("References", references); header.addHeaderField("X-Newsreader", "NetComponents"); System.out.print("Filename: "); System.out.flush(); filename = stdin.readLine(); try { fileReader = new FileReader(filename); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { System.err.println("File not found. " + e.getMessage()); System.exit(1); } client = new NNTPClient(); client.addProtocolCommandListener(new PrintCommandListener( new PrintWriter(System.out))); client.connect(server); if (!NNTPReply.isPositiveCompletion(client.getReplyCode())) { client.disconnect(); System.err.println("NNTP server refused connection."); System.exit(1); } if (client.isAllowedToPost()) { Writer writer = client.postArticle(); if (writer != null) { writer.write(header.toString()); Util.copyReader(fileReader, writer); writer.close(); client.completePendingCommand(); } } fileReader.close(); client.logout(); client.disconnect(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } } }

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