public function getMessageIdList($first, $last)
{
SpotDebug::msg(SpotDebug::TRACE, __CLASS__ . "->getMessageIdList(" . $first . "," . $last . ")");
$this->connect();
try {
$this->registerTryCommand();
return $this->_nntp->getHeaderField('Message-ID', $first . '-' . $last);
} catch (Exception $x) {
$this->registerError($x);
/**
* Try this operation again, but make sure we are not overloading
* the NNTP server with useless requests
*/
if ($this->tooManyErrors()) {
throw $x;
} else {
return $this->getMessageIdList($first, $last);
}
# else
}
# catch
}
<?php
// hai.. what this does: fetch only a header field from a
// usenet group (very fast), and apply some regex to it..
// use it for testing regex stuff
$hostname = 'news.usenetserver.com';
$username = '******';
$password = '******';
$group = 'alt.binaries.teevee';
$header_field = 'Subject';
$max_articles = 100000;
# /usr/share/pear/Net/NNTP/Client.php
include 'Net/NNTP/Client.php';
$nntp = new Net_NNTP_Client();
$nntp->connect($hostname);
$nntp->authenticate($username, $password);
$group = $nntp->selectGroup('alt.binaries.teevee');
print_r($group);
$first = $group['last'] - $max_articles;
$last = $group['last'];
$articles = $nntp->getHeaderField($header_field, "{$first}-{$last}");
print count($articles) . " articles indexed..\n";
foreach ($articles as $article) {
$pattern = '/(\\((\\d+)\\/(\\d+)\\))$/i';
if (!preg_match($pattern, rtrim($article), $matches)) {
echo "Not matched: {$article}\n";
} else {
# echo "$matches[2]\n";
}
}
exit;
