RE: [PEAR-DEV] Imap Backend Propsal

Richard, Thanks for the direction, here is what I have come up with for the URI abstraction. I was looking at the specifications and the docs for imap_open, apparently sometimes the server requires the 'notls' portion of the connection call when a secure connection is not required and sometimes it doesn't. I was looking at using imap|imaps to differientiate between tls and notls but that left out a third possibility, 'ssl/novalidate-cert'. I think I'd be more in favor of appending that portion of the call as an anchor on the end of the string. I noticed, obviously that TLS is the same thing as SSL.. is that portion of the argument always going to be called SSL (in the call to imap_open) or is it called 'tls' on newer systems? Just leads me to question whether that portion should also be added to the anchor. At this point the anchor can have values of the following: notls|novalidate-cert Since not every server requires notls to be appended. $url =& new Net_URL('imap://user:pass@mail.example.com:143/INBOX#notls'); $connect = '{'.$url->server; if (!empty($url->port)) { $connect .= ':'.$url->port; } switch($url->protocol) { case 'pop3s': $connect .= '/pop3/ssl'; break; case 'pop3': $connect .= '/pop3; break; case 'imaps': $connect .= '/imap/ssl'; break; case 'imap': $connect .= '/imap'; break; case 'nntps': $connect .= '/nntp/ssl'; break; case 'nntp': $connect .= '/nntp'; break; } if (!empty($url->anchor)) { $connect .= '/'.$url->anchor; } $connect .= '}'; if (!empty($url->path)) { $connect .= $url->path; } $this->mailbox = imap_open($connect, $url->user, $user->pass); Thanks, Richard York