1766176 - news.eternal-september.org doesn't authenticate any more in JS NNTP implementation

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[newsfan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.127 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

In TB 100 b3. Open an account at news.eternal-september.org. Configure a news account setting the server to always authenticate:
Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings
Always request authentication when connecting to this server

Actual results:

Server doesn't authenticate, you only get the "home made" newsgroups at news.eternal-september.org.

Expected results:

Server should prompt for credentials and then show the "real world" newsgroups.

Comment 1

[Christian Riechers]

I can confirm the behavior as described above, there is no prompt for credentials with JS NNTP for news.eternal-september.org.

Comment 2

[Ping Chen [:rnons] (away)]

Attachment: Bug 1766176 - Start auth process when server.pushAuth is true in NntpClient.jsm. r=mkmelin

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/cc69780ed8df
Start auth process when server.pushAuth is true in NntpClient.jsm. r=mkmelin

Comment 4

[Christian Riechers]

TB 102.0b2, new profile, NNTP only.

TB still (or again?) does not prompt for credentials with JS NNTP for news.eternal-september.org.

Comment 5

[Christian Riechers]

Initially, when attempting to subscribe to newsgroups on news.eternal-september.org there is no authentication prompt, and only the Subscribe window with the "home made" newsgroups is shown.
One has to press 'Refresh' first which then will bring up the authentication prompt. After successful authentication the "real" newsgroups are shown.
It's somewhat confusing, but basically it works. Closing this bug (again).