128234 - Reading news (NNTP) not working behind a HTTP firewall/proxy

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 128045

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Tim Hunt]

News was working fine for me, up until about the middle of February, then, in
recent builds (For example I am currently using 2002022703), it stopped working.
If I open mail-news and go to my news account, the throbber spins for some time,
then eventually I get a pop-up error saying "A News (NNTP) error occured: /1.0
408 Request Time-out".

I can get a slightly more helpful error by typing a URL like
news://news.mozilla.org/ into the location bar of a browser window. When I do
that, the browser window displays a page saying:

============================================
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: news://news.mozilla.org/

The following error was encountered:

* Invalid URL

Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect. Possible problems:

* Missing or incorrect access protocol (should be `http://'' or similar)
* Missing hostname
* Illegal double-escape in the URL-Path
* Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed


Generated Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:17:06 GMT by roeburn.open.ac.uk (Squid/2.2.STABLE5)
============================================

roeburn.open.ac.uk is the web proxy chache where I work.

Raj Bhaskar <[e-mail]> reported this bug in the Mozillazine
forums: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback/read.php?f=4&i=1160&t=1160. He is
behind Squid/2.4.STABLE3. Various people in that forum have reported WFM, but
presumably they are not behind a proxy.

I assume that the bug is that a news URL is causing Mozilla to contact the HTTP
proxy, so this bug may actually belong in another, lower level networking
component, but since I am not sure I will leave it to a competent triager to
find the right home for this bug.

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I assume that you're using proxy auto config.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128064 ***

Comment 2

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

Not sure why this was marked a dup of a dup...

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128045 seems to be the real bug.

re-opening to correct.

Comment 3

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128045 ***

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Because that bg is the real one and the other one is INVALID - I was going to 
fix it up when I got hope this afternoon.

Doesn't really matter though

Comment 5

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

verified dup, since i haven't heard back I'll be the assumption was indeed 
correctly made.

Comment 6

[Tim Hunt]

Quite right, and and now that the dup (of the dup) has been fixed, I can read
news again. Many thanks. (Well, perhaps not, I was getting so much work done
while I couldn't read news.)