292510 - Don't alert user about unregistered protocols for iframes

Status: NEW

(Core :: Networking, defect, P5)

Description

[boogs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414

Hi,

I recently noticed that Mozilla, upon encountering an iframe where the src URL
uses an unknown protocol, pops up a window alerting the user that "... is not a
registered protocol".

Considering that the user did not type in the URL themselves, I think this
shouldn't be done - it's both annoying and confusing.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to example URL mentioned above, which has " ttp" instead of "http" as the
protocol for the embedded iframe

Actual Results:  
Mozilla pops up an alert notifying the user that "ttp is not a registered protocol".

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should silently ignore the error; another alternative would be to
display a "broken iframe" icon, similar to the one used for broken images, in
order to point out the error in an unobtrusive way.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

This would be fixed with error pages being turned on.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This would be fixed with error pages being turned on.

See Bug 28586. Look for duplicates under the dependent bugs.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

This bug still exists (Mac trunk)

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

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Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 167475.

Comment 8

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258