110841 - news:// with a null argument prompts, "Would you like to subscribe to 9?"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

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Build ID: 2001-11-19, all OSs.

Summary: news:// with a null argument prompts, "Would you like to subscribe to 9?"

Steps to Reproduce:

1.  Click on news://

Expected Results:

Either open the default news server or just the 3 pane.  In 4.x, this opens the
Message Center, which of course isn't in 6.x

Actual Results:

"Would you like to subscribe to 9?" is prompted.

Comment 1

[TT]

Is this bug ever going to be fixed?  It's been open for OVER A YEAR!

Comment 2

[wkfx2003-bugzilla]

Ha..is it so hard to fix if it is already assigned? Just give an error saying
"No Server specified" would be fine.

Comment 3

[thebeastwitheyesthatstared]

what is the current status on this?

Comment 4

[Richard Aspden]

Still hasn't been touched on a 1.5a nightly build (2003082604).
Any news on this?

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

*** Bug 221308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

For all the impatient people here, Seth has well over two thousand bugs assigned
to him.  So I suspect that he's not getting to this bug any time soon.

Comment 7

[Richard Aspden]

Clicking on this URL now comes up with the message "Access to the port number
given has been disabled for security reasons." - sort of a fix, but not quite!

It's better than it was doing, though.

Comment 8

[Richard Aspden]

This occurs on the Firefox/Thunderbird combo too. Back to "Would you like to
subscribe to 9?"

Comment 9

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 10

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Still there on current trunk.

Comment 11

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

aURL->GetPath is 9 already when nsNNTPProtocol::Initialize gets called here: <http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/news/src/nsNNTPProtocol.cpp#388>

Comment 12

[Ian Graham]

This seems to be partially fixed in Firefox, at least in 3.5.7. Accessing a news:// URL simply opens whatever client is available / configured for NNTP (TB, Outlook, etc.) 

However, Firefox does not seem to pass sufficient information to let the news client open a specified server / group. Here is a test case, involving Firefox 3.5.7 and Thunderbird 3.0.1. Note that in my case Thunderbird has an account configured to know of the NNTP server news.mozilla.org

1. Enter the URL news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.wishlist
   into the browser, and press "Enter"
2. Thunderbird client is launched
3. Thunderbird opens to default account (i.e default email in my case)
[ Alternative:
2a. (TB already running) Focus switches to running Thunderbird. ]

Expected behaviour:
3. Thunderbird should open the appropriate NTTP account and navigate to the
   specified newsgroup.

Comment 13

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Fixed somewhere by bug 226890.

Comment 14

[TT]

I don't know if I'd say it's fixed.  When I click on the link, the status bar now says "Connecting to..." and stays that way.  So it's still broken, just broken differently.

Comment 15

[Ian Graham]

I am ok to close this as the reported bug is fixed.  But clearly there is lots of other broken behavior, reported in the comments, that should be fixed. 

I don't know if the desired behavior is documented anywhere (e.g. a requirements document on a wiki?) If so then it might be nice if people could link bugs to related requirements pages?? Just a thought --

Comment 16

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

If a broken behavior isn't reported in bugzilla yet, file a new bug about it.