Bug 125767

Summary:	KNode does not support NNTP URLs (RFC 1738)
Product:	[Unmaintained] knode	Reporter:	Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Tristan Miller 2006-04-17 22:26:52 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

KNode does not recognize NNTP URLs as specified by RFC 1738 <http://rfc.net/rfc1738.html>.  This is a pretty major missing feature considering that KNode is a news client.

For example, if one reads a message containing the string
<nntp://newssrv.cdf.toronto.edu/ut.cdf.general/1145196515.558157.186670@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>, KNode does not recognize it as a URL specifying a Usenet article on a particular server and make it a clickable hyperlink.  Instead, it interprets everything following the nntp:// as an e-mail address!

KNode does provide support for news: URLs (also RFC 1738) so please include support for NNTP URLs as well.

Comment 1 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:35:45 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug.