147050 - throbber stays on after clicking link to FTP site with permissions error

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Tony Houghton]

If you go to the test URL (hurry, in case they fix the problem with the FTP
site!) and click on the first tutorial link (Martin Bernreuther's Introduction
to              wxWindows), a PDF on an FTP server, there's a permissions
problem, and the spinner/throbber stays on without ever being switched off until
stop is clicked or loading of a new page is completed. (Mozilla Debian Package
1.0rc2-2).

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

confirming, -> ftp

Comment 2

[Tony Houghton]

Attachment: Javascript with reference to non-existent image

Viewing this offline sometimes (always in Galeon) makes the throbber stay on.

Comment 3

[Tony Houghton]

This also sometimes happens when viewing sites with Javascript referring to
non-existent images. I can't get Mozilla to do it consistently, but Galeon does
it every time such a page is viewed *offline* (ie file:// not http:// etc). See
attachment for example.

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I have no time to work on mozilla at the moment, so dougt is taking over FTP

open ftp bugs -> him

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

javascript for a triaging.

Comment 6

[benc]

reporter:

please try a newer build. This sounds like it is actually fixed in bug 162326.

If so, send the bug back to FTP, and use "reassign bug to owner of selected
component."

Comment 7

[Phil Schwartau]

I agree with Ben. At any rate, both the ftp site and Tony's
testcase in Comment #2 are WORKSFORME using a current Mozilla build.

Because of the similarity with bug 162326, let me reassign back
to Networking: FTP, but I will resolve this as WORKSFORME.

Comment 8

[Phil Schwartau]

Resolving as WORKSFORME.  Both the ftp site and Tony's testcase
in Comment #2 work fine for me using current Mozilla builds on 
WinNT, Linux. The throbber does not stay running no matter what 
I do.

Of course, when accessing the ftp site the throbber runs until
the Acrobat PDF file is loaded, which can take 10 - 20 seconds.
But once it's loaded, the throbber stops. 

This may not be the permissions problem Tony first reported,
however. But again, the testcase in Comment #2 works fine, too.

Tony: can you confirm this with an up-to-date build? If everything
is OK for you, too, could you mark this bug "Verified"? Otherwise,
you can reopen the bug; thanks -

Comment 9

[benc]

VERIFIED: Mozilla 1.1, Mac OS X, Linux.
Throbber does not run anymore after the error messages are dismissed. Still
happens in Windows, see bug 162326.