11250 - Enable dial on demand times out.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement, P3)

Description

[varada]

There are several complaints on the CCK newsgroup that the 4.x product
munges the timeout settings when it enables dial on demand.  There are a
couple "EnableDialOnDemand" routines in the old code that I believe were
brought forward into the new code.  The main problem is that there are
no parameterizations that allow people to turn off the timeout setting
or change the value used.  Please look for this in the code and examine
ways to eliminate the problem or give people more control.  Are the
timeout settings even required to make dial on demand work?

Comment 1

[varada]

I have marked this M11 - but if I have all the other major stuff finished by
next wednesday - I shall try to put in a new parameter and get this stuff in by
M10. The main reason being - I dont want to check in with too many new features
at the same time.

Comment 2

[selmer (gone)]

This is an enhancement request.

Comment 3

[leger]

Moving all Profile Manager bugs to new Profile Manager Backend component.
Profile Manager component to be deleted.

Comment 4

[selmer (gone)]

not M15 stopper.

Comment 5

[varada]

Marking as M20

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

changing QA contact on dialup bugs

Comment 7

[bmartin]

updating QA Contact to [e-mail]

Comment 8

[Grace Bush]

varada,

what is status of these bugs?  Will they need to be fixed for Factory?

Comment 9

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking all of varada's bugs.

Comment 10

[John T]

I'm using Mozilla 1.3a (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a)
Gecko/20021212) and found that it doesn't handle dial-on-demand consistently. If
my dialup ISP hangs up, or if I disconnect to use the telephone, mozilla browser
and mail doesn't always dial the ISP on demand. It reports in certain conditions
that the connection is refused, and I have to manually start the connection to
perform the desired action.

If mozilla could test for online/offline status and perform dial on demand if
the computer is offline and asked to do something online, that would be a bit
more convenient than dialing manually. Replacing the code that displays the
message "connection refused" with code to dial on demand ought to fix the problem.

Comment 11

[John T]

Does Mozilla 1.4 Release Candidate 2 have the dial-on-demand problems fixed?

Comment 12

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 13

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This bug is filed in a bugzilla component related to pre-Firefox code which no longer exists. I believe it is no longer relevant and I am therefore closing it INCOMPLETE.

If you believe that this bug is still valid and needs to be fixed, please reopen it and move it to the Toolkit:Startup and Profile System product/component.