108877 - Select correct server for <news:msg-id> URLs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1886132

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Support URLs of type <news:msg-id>, like <news:[e-mail]>.

(E.g., try to enter them in the urlbar of the browser, should then also work for
Mailnews standalone msg windows.) We already support them for
<news://server:port/msg-id>, e.g.
<news://news.t-online.de/[e-mail]>.

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

Stephend, is this in the common RFCs or specs?

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Yes.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dup of "URI-parser fails for news:[e-mail]"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89939 ***

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

No dup. The other bug is about the parser only (which I assumed does work
already). This bug is mainly to ensure that we select the right server (using
bug 108876). Maybe, if all deps are resolved, nothing is left here, but then we
should at least verify that it works. OTOH, there might need to be some glue
code to make it work together. REOPENing.

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

*** Bug 148659 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Roland Mainz]

What's the status of this bug ?

Comment 8

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

It still does not work. My suggestion for a solution while we wait on the
dependencies is to use the servers in the order they are listed until we succeed.

Later, if we have the dependencies solved we should:
a) Retrieve from msg-store if available, else
b) Retrieve from default server if available, else
c) Retrieve from the other servers in the order they are listed as above.

I suggest to move the target milestone from the past to whatever and get it going;-)

pi

Comment 9

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

The support of very basic URLs is really needed. Requesting 1.3b blocking.

pi

Comment 10

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Updating summary per comment 5.

Comment 11

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 209011 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Switching out duped dep

Comment 13

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

<http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.html> Section 3.6
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ellermann-news-nntp-uri-11#section-2.1>

Note: "news:" is *not* the same as "nntp:". It's completely different, and handling them the same is a bug.

Comment 14

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

This has been implemented in bug 1886132: For 'news' URIs without a specified server the first NNTP server found is used, which can be changed by reordering in Account Settings.