264900 - Can't use a proxy to access news groups

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 272367

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[James Stangler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041011 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041011 Firefox/0.10.1

Proxy support is only supported for http and https connections from newsgroup
articles.  My company has a proxy that all newsgroup requests need to go
through.  Thunderbird directs any news:// requests directly to the target host
instead of through a proxy.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Enable a proxy server for news://
2.  Disable direct access to the news server except from the proxy
3.  Under Tools->Account Settings, click "Add Account...", select "Newsgroup
account", enter name/email, enter news.eclipse.org as the newsgroup server,
enter news.eclipse.org as the account name, click finish, close "Account
Settings" window, right click on "news.eclipse.org" folder, select "Subscribe".

Actual Results:  
If direct access to news.eclipse.org is permitted, you're presented with the
groups to subscribe to.  If it's blocked requiring you to use the proxy, it will
eventually time out (I assume - I've never waited more than 5 minutes).


Expected Results:  
The software should allow me to enter a news:// proxy similar to http:// and
https:// so that the request could go through the proxy server.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Generally, there is no proxy support in MailNews/TB.  They will use the HTTP 
proxy for loading remote components of an HTML message (or RSS item), but the 
various mail and news protocols do not have individual proxy support.  
See bug 23728.

Bug 180490 request proxy support for NNTP -- I don't know for sure, but my 
understanding is that NEWS is a URL scheme where NNTP is the protocol used to 
resolve the URL, so this may be the bug you're looking for.

Bug 56291 requests proxy support for SNEWS

Bug 257542 is about TB-specific proxy issues.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 272367 ***