Issue 18503 - impossible to enter a "news://" hyperlink with the hyperlink dialog
Summary: impossible to enter a "news://" hyperlink with the hyperlink dialog
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC3
Hardware: Other Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: eric.savary
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2003-08-21 19:23 UTC by con.hennessy
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:41 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description con.hennessy 2003-08-21 19:23:08 UTC 
It is not possible to enter a news:// hyperlink. 
The HyperLink dialog either jumps to a html link or a document link!
Comment 1 h.ilter 2003-08-22 11:20:45 UTC 
Reassigned to ES
Comment 2 stefan.baltzer 2003-09-12 15:17:40 UTC 
SBA: Target set to OOo 2.0. Adjusted Summary to summarize the findings.
Comment 3 eric.savary 2003-09-23 18:08:23 UTC 
I can't reproduce this: going to the Mail & News tabpage I can enter
"news://" in the corresponding field and insert it without problem.
The generated link is anews:// link
Comment 4 drworley 2003-09-26 21:00:01 UTC 
Do beware that no valid URL starts "news://".  The correct formats are
"news:comp.foo.bar" (specifying a newsgroup) or
"news:20031254789@example.com" (specifying the Message-ID of a
particular Usenet article).

References:

The authoritative listing of URL types is:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes

    Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) SCHEMES

    (last updated 2003-08-29)

    This is the Official IANA Registry of URI Schemes

    Scheme Name     Description                                    
Reference
    -----------     -----------------------------------------     
---------
news            USENET news                                    [RFC1738]

The "news:" URL scheme is documented in RFC 1738:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html

   3.6. NEWS

   The news URL scheme is used to refer to either news groups or
   individual articles of USENET news, as specified in RFC 1036.

   A news URL takes one of two forms:

     news:<newsgroup-name>
     news:<message-id>

   A <newsgroup-name> is a period-delimited hierarchical name, such as
   "comp.infosystems.www.misc". A <message-id> corresponds to the
   Message-ID of section 2.1.5 of RFC 1036, without the enclosing "<"
   and ">"; it takes the form <unique>@<full_domain_name>.  A message
   identifier may be distinguished from a news group name by the
   presence of the commercial at "@" character. No additional characters
   are reserved within the components of a news URL.

   If <newsgroup-name> is "*" (as in <URL:news:*>), it is used to refer
   to "all available news groups".

   The news URLs are unusual in that by themselves, they do not contain
   sufficient information to locate a single resource, but, rather, are
   location-independent.
Comment 5 eric.savary 2003-11-06 18:50:46 UTC 
When typing 'my.favorite.newsgroup' in the receiver field I get the
RFC compliant news:my.favorite.newsgroup
But if I write 'news://my.favorite.newsgroup', I get
'news://my.favorite.newsgroup' which is ok for I may write what I want
even if it's wrong ;)
So -> WORKSFORME
Comment 6 eric.savary 2003-11-06 18:51:00 UTC 
closed