191616 - nightlies news reader randomly asks for username and password

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36816

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Todd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030131
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030131

Hi All,

   I subscribe to several newsgroups on news.cis.dfn.de.  My nightly
(20030131108) will randomly ask me for my user name and or password to
access the newsgroup (they are in the password manager).  I just press
cancel and the group acts correctly.  As I am on the other side of
world from this newsgroup, I suspect there is a timing problem with
the nightly, as this newsgroup comes highly recommended by several
Mozilla users on the newsgroups.

  You can sign up for this newsgroup at http://news.cis.dfn.de

Many thanks,
--Tony
[e-mail]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 191709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 192157 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Rainer Bielefeld]

This still is actual with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030131

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36816 ***

Comment 5

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Pls. check: bug 195614 seems to be a DUP of this one.

Comment 6

[Rainer Bielefeld]

sory for #5: I was in the wron bug!

Comment 7

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

Verified dup