44164 - improperly parented modal dialog in nsPop3Protocol

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect, P3)

Description

[Dan M]

nsNetSupportDialog should only be used as a backup plan if no other nsIPrompt 
interface is available. It has been used in dozens of places because of its 
seductive convenience. But it's flawed, creating modal windows that don't behave 
correctly; the cause of various blanket bugs like 25684 and 39439 (both currently 
considered nsbeta2+).
  This problem can only be fixed by trying much harder to find a proper window to 
be the modal dialog's parent. nsNetSupportDialog should be relegated to providing 
backup when herculean efforts to locate the actual parent window fail for some 
reason.
  As an example, the cookie service has been taught to use a proper parent window 
for its dialog by laboriously storing a reference to that window's nsIPrompt in 
nsHTTPChannel, from which it can be extracted and passed around while processing 
notification events, punting to nsNetSupportDialog only when no other choice is 
available. That same sort of thing needs to be done in many more places.
  One such place is nsPop3Protocol::Error().
  Happy recipients of this bug would spread the happiness most widely if they 
would start using a good nsIPrompt window. The "modal windows don't behave 
nicely" bugs are being made dependent on this bug and its siblings, and will 
eventually be closed as "as fixed as they're going to get" once these have all 
been considered.

Comment 1

[jefft]

Accepting and nominate for nsbeta2+....

Comment 2

[jefft]

Attachment: Have a fix

Comment 3

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar for beta2 fix. 

Comment 4

[jefft]

fix checked in.

Comment 5

[lchiang]

Per scott on verification: code inspection is the only way. I'd suggest getting 
an engineer who is helping you verify bugs to look at them. 

Comment 6

[lchiang]

What dialog is generated by this code?   Would a dialog telling the user that 
s/he has entered an incorrect password be sufficient?  I can then check the 
modality fo this dialog.

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

all windows seems ok...