301890 - the news server does not request authentication when "subscribe" is chosen from the right click pulldown menu associated with a newsgroup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Tim Popham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: version 1.0.6 (20050716)

The particular news server that I am subscribing to (news.u.washington.edu) has
public login and authenticated login functionality.  With the "Always request
authentication when connecting to this server" option selected, the "Subscribe"
dialog behaves inconsistently: an authentication dialog appears when "Manage
Newsgroup Subscriptions" is chosen, but the public domain newsgroups (of
news.u.washington.edu) are displayed when right clicking on the newsgroup and
then choosing "subscribe" from the pull down menu (no authentication dialog ever
appears in this case).

To work around this problem, simply choose "Manage Newsgroup Subscriptions"
rather than right clicking.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a newsgroup account on news.u.washington.edu and under "server
settings", check "use SSL" and "always request authentication"
2. Right click on the new newsgroup account and choose "subscribe"
3. After observing this result, then choose "Manage Newsgroup Subscriptions"

Actual Results:  
Step 2 shows the public groups available on the server, never attempting to get
login credentials from the user, while step 3 allows the user to login.

Expected Results:  
Under both cases, the user should be offered the authenticated login.  Only with
"always request authentication" unchecked should the public login be performed.

Comment 1

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Just authenticated with failure on right click->subscribe to test bug 307195. Using TB 2.0.0.15pre.