213951 - Proxy: connection error causes dead tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Daniel N.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030710
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030710

Entering a URL into the "Open New Location" dialog with "Open in new tab", a
dead page is spawned
if it is unable to connect to the proxy -- i.e. unlike the about:blank page, I
can't right-click on
the page, restarting the proxy and trying to reload in there doesn't work, etc.
 I can still close
the tab, though, by right-clicking on the tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure mozilla to use proxy
2. Make sure no proxy exists there.
3. Control-Shift-L
4. Spawn in new tab.
5. Enter url
6. Fire up proxy so mozilla can connect.
7. Try right-clicking in the body of the page for the new tab.
8. Try reloading.

Actual Results:  
Nada.  Just sits there.

Expected Results:  
Poppued up menu, reloaded, respectively.

pulling from trunk, gcc-2.95.4, stock Debian/woody toolchain, happens with
gcc-3.x as well.

Comment 1

[benc]

Please clarify what you mean by "no proxy exists there".

You mean DNS is wrong, the IP address is wrong, the port number is wrong?

Each of these is a separate error condition.

Comment 2

[Daniel N.]

any/all.  also if the configuration is right and the proxy is not running.
iow, mozilla is unable to connect to the proxy, whether via timeout, or via
tcp rst.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[benc]

REOPEN

The behavior still occurs w/ the original steps, in both new window and new tab.

This bug appears to be about "new tab".

The tab appears with a grey background in the content area, and now pulldown.

I know tabs has acted oddly (vs. new windows) for New-load errors.