[Pan-devel] (non-working) NZB import

[GISQUET Christophe]

Hello,

NZB is a XML file introduced (AFAIK) by the site newzbin.com and first 
used in the (still AFAIK) commercial and closed-source newsbin newsgroup 
 reader. The specs are available here:
http://docs.newzbin.com/Newzbin:NZB_Specs

While it probably isn't a killer feature, I thought it would be 
interesting to make a contribution by adding such support to pan, which 
is my prefered newsgroup reader.

I haven't attached the corresponding patch because of the usual 
filtering occuring on lists. You may find it with other files here:
http://christophe.gisquet.free.fr/nzb.tar.bz2

It contains both the patch and a (soon to be invalid) testcase:
- a .nzb file (Geri.nzb)
- the socket & parsing log (nzb.log) when loading this .nzb file and 
launching the save tasks
- the normal log (normal.log), when saving manually the articles' 
attachments in the corresponding newsgroup

This patch adds a handler in the GUI, which invokes a classic 
file-opening dialog (maybe GTK+ 2.6 only, I'm not that experienced with 
GTK+), while the actual work is performed in task-xml.c, as it shares a 
bit of code (and patches for newer files are problematic).

The NZB is parsed as a XML file, and the parsing seems OK to me (not 
tested extensively). I added fast workarounds for filename generation, 
for lack of knowledge of pan (I'm only 2 days into it) code.

However, whatever I try (adding a body task or a save task), the 
requests to the server seem strange, as if the identifier wasn't 
properly pre-processed by myself. I'm now clueless on what's lacking. I 
hope it's only minor.

Regards,
Christophe GISQUET