120960 - No authenticatin setting for servers that don't require authentication but can use authentication

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39862

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Jim Henderson]

I subscribe to a couple of news servers that do not require authentication but
provide access to private newsgroups in addition to public newsgroups.  Access
to the private newsgroups requires authentication, but access to the public
groups does not.  Thus, waiting for the news server to say "Authentication
required" does not work because it never does this, and just assumes the news
server never needs authentication.

Steps to reproduce:

1.Create a news server that can use authentication but doesn't require it
2.Access the news server
3.Observe that you are never prompted for authentication.

Actual results:

You only ever see the publically available newsgroups, and never can see the
private newsgroups.

Expected results:

It should have a prefrence setting to allow you to force authentication to be
used regardless of whether the news server fails on the initial connect and
responds with Authentication Required.  NetScape 4.7x has the correct behaviour.

Comment 1

[Jim Henderson]

I should add that I tested this with Mozilla build 2002011908 on Windows XP, but
I have experienced this issue on Linux builds as well, and so assume the
behaviour here is consistent across all platforms/oses.

Comment 2

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See bug 39862 (the bugs to implement UI for this feature are noted in the latter
portion of that bug).



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39862 ***

Comment 3

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Jim, can you let me know if following the instructions in bug 39862 worked for
you?  If so, then I can verify this is a DUP.  Thanks.

Comment 4

[Jim Henderson]

This does seem to work OK, but I get prompted on every single newsgroup for the 
user ID and password; IMO behaviour should be that one user ID and password 
works for the entire news server.

Comment 5

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Jim, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78356.

Thanks for reporting back in such a timely manner.