From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus authentication bug
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:14:27 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1307122012400.18477@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.01.1307121558520.14811@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg>
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> This can be reproduced using news.metrocast.net since it is one of the
> news servers that require authentication. When I start up gnus, without
> providing authentication, gnus goes into deep space and gets lost. It
> downloads an active file over a million bytes in size and just keeps on
> downloading. If I run rtin against the same server news.metrocast.net,
> the subcontracted server with the news on it comes up news.giga.com and
> expects authentication without downloading any active file. For whatever
> reason, gnus is failing to catch and display the authentication expected
> message and this is the version 5.3..1 built into emacs 23.x.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
> About to block another web browser version? Ask yourself what Tim
> Berners-lee would do.
>
>
>
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jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
About to block another web browser version? Ask yourself what Tim
Berners-lee would do.
That's version 5.13 of gnus that hangs and fails to show authentication
expected messages and prompt for credentials. I transposed a couple
numbers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-13 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-12 20:05 gnus authentication bug Jude DaShiell
2013-07-13 0:14 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
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2013-07-13 16:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-14 1:03 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-07-19 13:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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