1033622 - [geckoview] localStorage fails to load on pages loaded from the Assets using jar:file protocol

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(GeckoView :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[dpupek]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Created an app with a GeckoView and the following prefs:
PrefsHelper.setPref("dom.storage.enabled", true);

A page is loaded into the view from the Assets directory. The page attempts to use localStorage and tries obtaining a reference to localStorage.


Actual results:

the following error is thrown:
[Exception... "Component is not available"  nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "JS frame :: debugger eval code :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 1"  data: no]

No errors appear in logcat


Expected results:

The localStorage object should be available for storing items.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I think this is due to the profile missing.
We'd need to set the storage location to some app-private directory.

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Title change: Ah, so localStorage works for http pages. Just not for assets under jar:file: protocol.

That also means that comment 1 is wrong.

FWIW, I'm affected by this, too.

Comment 3

[dpupek]

This probably a good case for fixing Bug 948465

That would allow us to not have to use the jar:file protocol

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Mass change of bugs in the "Embedding: GRE Core" component in preparation for archiving it. I believe that these are no longer relevant; but if they are, they should be reopened and moved into a component relevant to the code in question.

Comment 5

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Reopening and moving to Core::Embedding: APIs, where we'll continue to triage and track GeckoView issues, but this might be wontfix if it isn't useful now that bug 948465 has been fixed.

Comment 6

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

Kevin, can you see if this still happens?

Comment 7

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Temporary p5 until I get a chance to investigate.