104366 - uncaught exception in PageInfoOverlay.xul

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

1. go to http://gemal.dk/test/2.html
2. right click on the link there and say "open in new window"
3. then you get en error saying that the page could not be loaded.
4. select the window with the page the didn't load
5. View -> Page Info

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMLocation.host]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://pippki/content/PageInfoOverlay.xul :: anonymous :: line 72"  data: no]

Comment 1

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

I don't see a bug here. You've linked to a page that doesn't exist, so why do
you expect any information to show up in Page Info? Everything seems to be
behaving as expected.

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

I kind of thought that you should never get any js errors. That there should be 
some kind of check in the PageInfoOverlay file that a webpage is actually 
present...?

If you load "about" and the do View -> Page Info then the js error is causing 
the Security tab to not show correct info.

I thought that we might could do:
        try {
          var hostname = hostname;
        } catch(exception) {
          hostname = null;
        } 

Comment 3

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

-> XPToolkit/Widgets

Comment 4

[John Morrison]

This is up the apps level to guard against this error (although it's somewhat
moot whether the security overlay fails to be shown, for a page that doesn't 
exist).

-> PSM (or is there a better product/component for this).

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

Much easier to reproduce:
Just select View -> Page Info on the "about:" page and you'll get:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMLocation.host]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://pippki/content/PageInfoOverlay.xul :: anonymous :: line 72"  data: no]

Comment 6

[Henrik Gemal]

dupe of 83392 ?

Comment 7

[John Unruh]

Marking worksforme.

Comment 8

[John Unruh]

Verified WFM.