35123 - auth news problem with typhoon v1.2.2 news server

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect, P1)

Description

[David Pearson]

I am using Mozilla (m14) build 2000040616.  My news server is news.earthlink.net 
and I have to sign on with my username and password.  I get an error "A News 
(NNTP) error occurred: Bad Command Usage" when I attempt to view a newgroup or a 
message in a newsgroup.  Also I don't know if the new Mozilla/Netscape will aske 
me for my username and password for every newsgroup I visit or just the first 
newsgroup and remember if I jump to another newsgroup.  I also don't know if 
these problems exist on other news servers besides news.earthlink.net as some 
news servers don't require a username and password.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

over to sspitzer...

Seth did we implement auth nntp support in beta1? I can't remember...

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

yes, auth news was in for beta1.  (we really need a "news" bugzilla component)

I think I have other bugs about this "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad Command
Usage" problem.

just curious, what username do you use when talking to that nntp server?

Comment 3

[lchiang]

(Seth - we'll get the bugzilla components straightened out. Should do that next 
week.)

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

talking to david offline about this.  news.earthlink.net runs a Typhoon v1.2.2 
server.  I'm working on setting one of those up, so I can reproduce.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

updating summary, adding par and karen to the cc list.

par and karen are working on setting up a typhoon v1.2.2 news server

marking p1.

Comment 6

[Karen Huang]

I already completed the typhoon (v 1.2.2) news server.
I also can reproduce this problem on Netscape 6 for the typhoone news server.
Actual Results: 
1)After login the User name & Password, an Alert displayed:
"A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad Command Usage"
2) After click OK from above Alert, the login dialog display again for enter 
username & password
3) After I enter username & password, after a while...the Alert displayed again 
3) Even I can see some news headers already displayed on the thread pane.
5) But the bottom status bar keep processing and displaying "Loading 
document..."
6) Finally, it will display the news message on the message body, but the login 
dialog is back & displaying again.........

Expected Results: Shouldn't display so many times login & Alert dialogs --
should only display one time for login username & password without Alert and 
allow reading news message successfully.

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

here's what appears to be happening.

the typhoon server doesn't accept the "LIST EXTENSIONS" command and this leads 
to a 501.  I need to see how we handle this 501 gracefully in 4.x

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fixed, finally.  the news code really needs some serious cleanup, I wish I had 
them time to really fix some early mistakes I made.

until then, it will be nasty code, but hopefully, continue to work.

Comment 9

[Karen Huang]

Verified on Win98 & winNT today's 05-02-09-M16 commercial build:
Alert "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Bad Command Usage" is not displaying 
anymore....but the user login dialog still displays two times for auth.....
I remember that is existing bug. Marking as verified for this bug!