Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.3.5) OS: Linux Dolphin, the handler of choice for the NNTP URL scheme, is unable to display contents of a newsgroup. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open <URL:nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters>. Actual Results: 1. Dolphin comes to the front and shows an NNTP group window. The group is empty. Expected Results: 2. The group should display current messages posted to the group. OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop Compiler: gcc
It probably has to do with the link you provided. I tried the link on both Dolphin and Konqueror, and nothing was displayed. Using a different link, for example nntp://61.160.235.197/comp.sys.amiga.misc/ worked on both Dolphin and Konqueror. Does that link also work for you?
(In reply to comment #1) > It probably has to do with the link you provided. I tried the link on both > Dolphin and Konqueror, and nothing was displayed. Using a different link, for > example nntp://61.160.235.197/comp.sys.amiga.misc/ worked on both Dolphin and > Konqueror. Does that link also work for you? Well, it depends what you understand by "works". It displays a window with numbered document icons; there is no clue about the author or the subject; I get an error message "File or directory does not exist" whenever I try to open a document from there. I would not say that it works.
The numbers are assigned by the news server to uniquely identify the messages; using the subject as the file name would not work. Use KNode or other news readers if you want something more elegant. Clicking on a file opens KWrite here; if this does not work it is a bug.
(In reply to comment #3) > Clicking on a file opens KWrite here; if this does not work it is a bug. Clicking on a file opens a dialog box "File or directory does not exist".
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #1) > It probably has to do with the link you provided. I tried the link on both > Dolphin and Konqueror, and nothing was displayed. Using a different link, > for example nntp://61.160.235.197/comp.sys.amiga.misc/ worked on both > Dolphin and Konqueror. Does that link also work for you? I've just opened the nntp://61.160.235.197/comp.sys.amiga.misc/ and it showed nothing so went back to nntp://61.160.235.197/ and it says Invalid protocol in Dolphin. Has nntp functionality been removed? If so I guess we can mark this bug as UNMAINTAINED.
Yes, the NNTP and MBOX ioslaves which were originally part of kdepimlibs were apparently never ported when PIM was split up into components. But some KF5 porting work was done (in 2014), so it should be possible to resurrect them.
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If anyone still needs to use these ioslaves then they are available (ported to current KF5) at https://invent.kde.org/marten/kio-mbox https://invent.kde.org/marten/kio-nntp Closing this bug as UNMAINTAINED as suggested in comment #5.