281588 - news is not a registered protocol

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269065

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Vicki Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041201 Camino/0.8.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041201 Camino/0.8.2

I'm using camino 2004120113 (v0.8.2)
I clicked a Usenet URL and got "news is not a registered protocol"

 > At 08:06 -0500 02/07/2005, Mike Pinkerton wrote:
 > >i thought we fixed that for 082. it should be on our whitelist of
 > >protocols. 

> would you please file a bug? thanks!


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Surf to http://sendmail.org/
2. Scroll down to Primary resources for learning about sendmail ...
3. Click on  comp.mail.sendmail at the first sub-bullet

Actual Results:  
news is not a registered protocol

Expected Results:  
take me there, read news group

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i'm surprised this doesn't work, i thought we whitelisted news when we
whitelisted the other protocols. 

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is essentially a duplicate of bug 269065 (but less complex in the
work-around required).

Opening that news: link in Safari produces the "first-time for this url scheme"
dialogue asking me if I want to open MT-Newswatcher (after I installed it). 
Clicking on the news: link thereafer in Camino launches MT-NW as expected.  

The root cause of the two bugs is the same--Camino is not showing the "first
launch" dialogue and is instead simply reporting the protocol is not registered
(news: might be whitelisted in Camino, but it's not in the OS apparently, in
case one doesn't have a newsreader installed).

This case is less complex than the Eudora one because switching default apps for
the protocol seems not to be required to get things working again in Camino.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269065 ***