215902 - browser - newsreader integration fails when opening a newsserver url

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Rainer Schnell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

When I write a new url of a newsserver into the url line of the browser (eg.
news://news.freenet.de/) the command fails. When I create it by the assistent in
the mail/newsserver modul it works.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write in the url line of the browser:  news://puce.geeks.org/
2. A popup appears:  Do you want to get a abbonnement of puce.geeks.org ? (in
German: Wollen sie puce.geeks.org abonnieren?)
3. Push "ok"


Actual Results:  
Warning-popup:  news could not be found.... 
AND no newsserver is added.

Expected Results:  
It has to add the new newsserver name puce.geeks.org to the list of newsservers
in the mail-/news modul (it works, when I take the special assistent in the
mail-/news modul).

Comment 1

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

Yes, according to my testcase at
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/tests/sea-mn-newsgroup-function.html#URI,
this should spawn the Account Wizard.

Servers take the form of:

news://servername.tld/

while groups take the form of:

news:netscape.test

while a full URL would be something like:

news://news.mcom.com/netscape.public.test

Confirming bug based on my experience with the 2003-08-12-04 bug.

David, can you offer any assistance?

Comment 2

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

Hrm, this is broken in Netscape 7.1, too, which means that it's a probably with
1.4 or before.

Comment 3

[Andreas Otte]

It seems to me that "news" always wants to subcribe to a group on the default
(first) news account if one exists. If no news account exists I see the dialog
that "news" does not exists which means that it tries to resolve the host "news"
not "news.freenet.de". If I remember correctly the news protocol is broken in a
way that normally it is a simple url like news:group which always goes to the
current news-server. mailnews handles it as a standard-url which possibly
contains the host, an extended feature. My guess ... something in the uriloader ...

Comment 4

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

*** Bug 217738 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Steve Wendt]

This fails even for existing news servers (brings up a blank web page, instead
of the newsreader).  Checking the three testcases in 1.7b:

news://servername.tld/  <-- blank web page

news:netscape.test      <-- works

news://news.mcom.com/netscape.public.test  <-- works

Comment 6

[Steve Wendt]

Problem happens in OS/2 and WinXP also, I suggest OS->All and updating the
summary to more accurately reflect this nasty bug...

Comment 7

[(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 8

[Steve Wendt]

Why was this changed to FIXED?  It hasn't changed, as far as I can tell.

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

No it's not FIXED (no patch referenced as the fix). It does work for me though (tried ff3+tb2), so changing to WORKSFORME.

Comment 10

[Steve Wendt]

(In reply to comment #9)
> It does work for me though (tried ff3+tb2)

Maybe the product should be changed to Mozilla Application Suite, then?

Comment 11

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Sorry, still a problem with ff and tb too. (You get the popup, but the server isn't added.)