Bug 26997

Summary:	knode news nntp message url
Product:	[Unmaintained] knode	Reporter:	Ken Cecka <ceckak>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ceckak
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ken Cecka 2001-06-09 21:59:43 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           knode
Version:           0.4 (using KDE 2.1.1 )
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    Linux-Mandrake 8.0 i586
Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Linux-Mandrake 8.0 2.96-0.48mdk)
OS:                Linux 2.4.2-11mdksmp i686
OS/Compiler notes: 

I wanted to send a link to a friend who uses konqueror/kmail/knode to a specific article on the news.povray.org news server.

First point is definitely a feature request - provide a 'copy-link-location' feature somewhere to grab a url for a specific message.

Second point is more of a bug report.  I composed my own URL based on the guidelines I found at http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/draft-gilman-news-url-01.txt

The URL I composed is:
news://news.povray.org/3B21DD10.32DDED2F@pobox.com

When I stick this link in a web page view the page in konqueror and click the link I get the error "No news articles could be retrieved for news.povray.org/3B21DD10.32DDED2F@pobox.com! The following error ocurred: 411 no such news group".

Apparently Knode is not interpretting news/nntp urls correctly.  I tried the same link in netscape and it worked without a problem.

This is nothing terribly urgent - just worth noting.

Thanks
Ken

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
(Called from KBugReport dialog)

Comment 1 Christian Gebauer 2001-06-10 03:10:20 UTC

ceckak@alumni.washington.edu wrote:
> 
> Package: knode
> Version: 0.4 (using KDE 2.1.1 )
> Severity: normal
> Installed from:    Linux-Mandrake 8.0 i586
> Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Linux-Mandrake 8.0 2.96-0.48mdk)
> OS:                Linux 2.4.2-11mdksmp i686
> OS/Compiler notes:
> 
> I wanted to send a link to a friend who uses konqueror/kmail/knode to a specific article on the news.povray.org news server.
> 
> First point is definitely a feature request - provide a 'copy-link-location' feature somewhere to grab a url for >a specific message.

The next release will have a feature to get any article via the message-id so
will only have to send the message-id.

> 
> Second point is more of a bug report.  I composed my own URL based on the guidelines I found at http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/draft-gilman-news-url-01.txt
> 
> The URL I composed is:
> news://news.povray.org/3B21DD10.32DDED2F@pobox.com
> 
> When I stick this link in a web page view the page in konqueror and click the link I get the error "No news >articles could be retrieved for news.povray.org/3B21DD10.32DDED2F@pobox.com! The following error ocurred: 411 no >such news group".
> 

Fixed.

Greetings
Christian
-- 
>><< Christian Gebauer >><< gebauer@bigfoot.com >><< ICQ 14916141 >><<

Comment 2 mi+kde 2002-11-26 02:52:24 UTC

I still have this same problem -- with the newer, 0.71 KNode. When I click on 
the following URL in Konqueror: 
	
news://news.blackalpinist.com/200211252350.gAPNooiR002217@ledorub.chem.purdue.edu 
 
the window (and the desktop) switches to the already running Knode, which 
promptly complains about the invalid message (and points me to 
groups.google.com). 
 
I know, it is lying, however, because the NNTP-server logs the request as 
 
	ARTICLE 
<//news.blackalpinist.com/200211252350.gAPNooiR002217@ledorub.chem.purdue.edu> 
 
Looks like the URL is mis-parsed (index() instead of rindex() :-) ?) only the 
Message-ID part should be requested... Yours, 
 
	-mi