411568 - Newsreader can't access newsgroup with @ sign

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Bobby Jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: version 3.0a1pre (2008010903)

I would like to read a newsgroup called @last. I can subscribe to it, but the headers won't download and I can't see anything. Noticed the problem first in 2.0.0.9; there it appears to download the headers but you still can't view any messages. All other groups on the server appear fine, it's only the one starting with @ that is a problem. The group appears fine in other readers. I have tried on W2K & XP, same result.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to group with name starting in "@"
2. Try to Get Messages
3. It doesn't do anything
Actual Results:  
Could not see any messages.

Expected Results:  
Download headers.

Comment 1

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Mailnews internally uses news: URIs to handle protocol states. As defined in RFC 1738, the presence of the `@' character should be used to differentiate between a news:<message-id> and a news:<group> format. We should be encoding this character as %40 internally.

Comment 2

[Bobby Jones]

Just to update - I have just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the problem still exists.

Comment 3

[Bobby Jones]

This bug still appears in Thunderbird 3.0.1.

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

There is generally no need to post "this bug still appears in XXX" unless there would be some reason to suggest that it wouldn't appear. In particular, once we have stable release versions (Thunderbird 3.0.x), most updates will just contain security fixes.