598943 - Hosts blocked in /etc/hosts cannot be visited after a reload

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Using a recent Camino 2.1a1pre nightly...

STR:

0) Visit (for example) http://ad.doubleclick.net in Camino to ensure you can reach it.
1) Add "127.0.0.1 [tab] ad.doubleclick.net" to your /etc/hosts file with your favourite text editor and save the changes.
2) Repeat step 0 and observe its failure.
3) Comment out the hosts file entry and save.
4) Repeat step 0.

ER: Success.

AR: Failure.

This works in Safari 5 and Firefox 3.6, but I'd be mildly shocked if this was really a problem in Camino code.

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

So, it didn't always fail for me, but I've been able to reproduce this.
I tested the url in comment 0 and caminobrowser.org in addition to a couple of domains on the local dev server.

In my tests, I loaded the url(s), closed the tab/window, edited the hosts file and closed it. Loaded the url(s) again.

Two observations: 
1. I have seen failures after step 1 in comment 0 - url not blocked when it should be blocked. Even a force reload sometimes failed.

2. I've seen the exact same failures with a fairly recent Namoroka build (fx 3.6 nightly).

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I haven't seen one of these failures in a long time, although I also haven't taken anything *out* of my hosts file in a long time.

Not sure what might have changed, though.