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Re: gnus authentication bug


From: Jude DaShiell
Subject: Re: gnus authentication bug
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:14:27 -0400 (EDT)

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.




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