85739 - Too Many Connections error after brief newsgroup session

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 66150

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[WD]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010613
BuildID:    2001061304

After using Mozilla to read newsgroup messages for a little bit, I get an error
message from my NNTP server saying that too many connections are open.   I'm
never loading more than one message at a time from the server.   Once this
message appears, I can no longer read any message.   Even if I leave Mozilla
alone for several minutes, I get the error if I try to read a message.    The
only fix is to quit and re-load Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use Mozilla to view newsgroup messages on a server that limits number of
connections from an IP.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  After a while, an error comes up saying that too many NNTP
connections are open.

Expected Results:  I guess I could expect this message if I tried to open up a
whole bunch of messages at once.

If I try to re-visit a message where I got that error, Mozilla displays a blank
message and marks it as read, rather than displaying the error again.   (But
perhaps this should be filed separately)

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

Stephend, is this maybe a duplicate of bug 67213?

Comment 2

[WD]

67213 seems like it's focused on the point that a newsgroup post is lost if this
error encountered during posting.

My problem is, I'm getting the error when I shouldn't be

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

It's not an outright duplicate, but bug 66150 is about us being able to specify
how many connections to allow (client side).

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Yeah, it really is a DUP of bug 66150, but also see bug 74518, which is about
attachments brining up this dialog.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66150 ***

Comment 5

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verified dup.