98029 - Must log in twice or more to Earthlink nntp server

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36816

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Jason Goodman]

This may be a Networking - News bug, or it may be an evangelism bug.

Bug setup:
Account setup in MailNews for news.earthlink.net.  Subscribed to two newsgroups:
sci.space.tech and sci.space.science.

Reproducing the bug:1) Start MailNews
2) Enter IMAP password.
3) Enter News username ([e-mail])
4) Enter News password.
5) Open first newsgroup (sci.space.tech), read some news.
6) Compose a reply, hit "send".
7) Enter News username.
8) Enter News password.
9) Open second newsgroup (sci.space.science).
10) Enter News username.
11) Enter News password.

Reproducibility:
I seem to always need to enter username/password the first time you reply to a
message.  I *sometimes* am asked for username/password for the second newsgroup.

Expected results:
As I recall, NS4 required only one login at the beginning of the News session. 
I shouldn't have to type in my password multiple times.

Caveats:
Earthlink's news server could have some sort of timeout feature, which could
explain some of this behavior.  But it only takes me a few minutes to type in
and send a reply, after reading a message, and why does it seem to happen so
much more often with Mozilla than NS4?
Build ID: 2001083108

Comment 1

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

Jason, can you post an NNTP log, please?  This would help out a great, since I
don't have credentials to test Earthlink myself. Refer, if you would, to
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap for
instructions, substituting NNTP for IMAP, thanks!

Comment 2

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

Okay, Seth told me briefly what's going on with this.  It has to do with the URI
scheme, and the way we're sending/storing the user/name pass for the news URI to
the password manager.  It needs to be more robust, and do it per server (I hope
I got that right.)  

Comment 3

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

*** Bug 96896 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

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

*** Bug 101635 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

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

See this logfile http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=50400
from bug 78356.

Comment 6

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

Attachment: start of a hack, but I need to modify nsIWalletService.idl to finish this.

Comment 7

[Håkan Waara]

Partial patch looks good so far.

Comment 8

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36816 ***

Comment 9

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verified dup - I copied the patch link and relevant information into the older bug.