137283 - Downloading news messages fails when memory cache turned off

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

After turning off the memory cache and re-launching mozilla, downloading news
messages fails. Headers get downloaded fine, but when trying to load a full
message, nothing happens. When opening it in a new window, the message pane is
empty.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Make sure you are subscribed to at least one newsgroup
2. Go to Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Cache
3. Set "Memory Cache" to zero (and clear it)
4. Go to ... | Debug | Networking
5. Uncheck "Enable Mem Cache"
6. Submit that and re-launch Mozilla
7. Launch MailNews and go to a newsgroup with new messages
8. Try to download a new message

Expected results:
Message should download fine. When double-clicking, message should appear in new
window.

Actual results:
Message doesn't get downloaded at all.

Comment 1

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

Confirming with both OS X 10.1.4 and Windows 2000 - latest trunk and Mozilla 1.0
branch builds.  This isn't a problem for the commercial releases, because we
remove the debug pref panel, but we should still fix this.

Comment 2

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

*** Bug 140888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jim Moe]

Mozilla suite v1.7.5 for os/2. Also Firefox v1.0.0 for os/2 and windows 2000.

I just discovered this defect myself, three years after it was first reported.
<http://news.independent.co.uk/> does not display anything if
browser.cache.memory.enable is set to false.

Also phpMyAdmin 2.6.1 does not display if memory cache is disabled.

Comment 4

[Peter Weilbacher]

Jim, you are mistaken. This bug is about download news (as in Usenet news)
messages with the MailNews component, and has nothing to do with webpage based
news services. (Although I have to admit I didn't find a bug that fits your
problem, you should be aware that disabling memory cache is unsupported.)

Comment 5

[(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 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 7

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

WFM on Linux 2.0.0.15pre.