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We should implement more than just what Sab likes

Reporter: dragoon

When binding to privileged port (and potentially any unavailable port) Spring boot throws the error:

Error starting ApplicationContext. To display the auto-configuration report enabled debug logging (start with --debug)

Make this more informative

either local via broadcast or via some kind of service discovery layer.
advertise when requested

Allow the users to be stored in a mysql database.

create database user_db;
use user_db;
create table user (
user_id int(6) not null auto_increment,
username varchar(16) not null,
password varchar(64) not null,
max_connections int(6)) not null
);

It is possible to starve clients from upstream threads, depending on a number of factors:

• Number of concurrent client requests
• Number of article requests being served from cache
• Number of upstream connections
• Whether issue #4 is fixed (this will happen very often otherwise)

Currently the server will return a harsh response code, look at alternative strategies such as:

• Waiting for a while
• Transient error code
• Something else

Reporter: dragoon

When starting with a bad configuration, user receives unhelpful message such as:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.apache.commons.configuration.XMLConfiguration]: Factory method 'xmlConfiguration' threw exception; nested exception is org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException: Unable to load the configuration from the URL file:/etc/nntp2p.cfg

Fix this plz

The SSL client socket will throw an exception if it can't verify the certificate chain, so this falls over for providers that don't run with a real SSL cert (eg: Blocknews)

This will be required to complement #6 where I was planning on generating a new SSL certificate if one is not provided by the user.

Currently resolveProvider() only returns a single provider that has the article.
When used, this provides a one-shot attempt to get the article via that provider.

Returning a prioritised list of providers with the article allows the proxy to attempt providers in sequence should any failures occur fetching the article.

As topic

This code was never implemented. It's pretty core functionality.

Worst case: Scheduled job to prune the cache.
Best case: Check on article insertion, queue job.

Plaintext is so 1999.

And do something useful with them

Provide some kind of usage statistics to give an idea of how much data has been served out of the cache vs upstream

Handle this instead of noop'ing.

Shippable bug.

Some parsing exceptions that are TODO'ed.

Reporter: dragoon

When installing the debian package generated from maven target, the user/group nntp2p is not created correctly.

Environment: Ubuntu 14.04

useradd is present on system.