225520 - view-source on invalid protocol gives bogus error message

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Stevie-O]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.20 (Windows NT 5.0; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030

Going to an invalid protocol URL like this:

  bogus:foo

properly complains with a dialog box that 'bogus' is not a valid protocol.

However, going to

  view-source:bogus:foo

pops up a dialog saying that 'view-source' is not a valid protocol; after that, 
an empty view-source window is opened.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type into your browser: view-source:bogus:foo
2. After seeing the (incorrect) error message, click OK to get a blank 
view-source window.

Actual Results:  
'view-source is not a registered protocol' followed by a blank View Source 
window.

Expected Results:  
'bogus is not a registered protocol', preferably *not* followed by a blank 
window :)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Typing this in the URL bar happens to work, but is not supported and is subject
to not working at any time... Fixing bugs in error reporting in functionality
that is essentially an easter egg is pretty low priority... ;)

Comment 2

[Alex Hirzel]

Seeing this in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

Comment 3

[Stephen Oberholtzer]

Attachment: Hack^WPatch to fix the described error.

This patch is based on the 'wyciwyg' logic in nsDocShell::InternalLoad.

It fixes two issues:
(1) "view-source is not a registered protocol"
(2) "could not be loaded" (a borked version of the 'www.foo.com could not be
loaded' error message )

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

That's not the only case. This URL also produces a bogus error message.
(As distinct from a bogus: error message, of course ;-)

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Still valid. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051121 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005112104

Comment 8

[Philip Chee]

SeaMonkey trunk is now using toolkit viewsource.