Authenticated NNTP Problem

[Kevin Schmidt]

Hi,

I set up James 2.1.1 to require authenticated NNTP and then attempted to use it with Mozilla 1.3b and Netscape 4.75. Both reported "501 Syntax Error". With logging turned on I saw that both were sending "AUTHINFO user <username>" and in looking at the code in NNTPHandler.java, I saw that James was expecting an uppercase "USER".

Changing the command checking to use "command.equalsIgnoreCase(AUTHINFO_PARAM_USER)" (line 560) and "command.equalsIgnoreCase(AUTHINFO_PARAM_PASS)" (line 575) seemed to solve this problem.

Was there a reason why James wasn't already doing case insensitive checking? Should a new bug report be written for this? I believe the RFC indicates the commands should be case insensitive so I believe so but wanted to check first.

Thanks,

Kevin



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