131874 - gopher: menus do not load

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Aaron Angel]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

It seems regardless of what gopher site I go to the menu fails to display at
all.  I have, however, gotten a real menu on occasion, but this has totalled to
about 2 times in a rather large number of tries.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla
2. Enter a gopher site into the location bar
  (try gopher://gopher.infoarc.sodaknet.com:8070/1,
gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/1, etc.)

Actual Results: header and blank menu
Expected Results:  The WELL's gopher menu

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

The first link tells me that I'm not authorised, but the second one works.

Its rather slow (10-20 seconds), but its slow if I just telnet manually to that
server, so thats not a mozilla bug

Comment 2

[Aaron Angel]

Ok...that could be why I couldn't view the my own site (infoarc), but it wasn't
even telling me I was unauthorized (which, the error not being in gopher format,
I can understand that).  I fixed the auth error, and it still is blank.

Btw, this is Mozilla 0.9.9, I just noticed I forgot to fill that in.

And in any case, it's not just my site that I can't view in moz, it's pratically
any.  (Except, now...ehk).

Ok, now I can view a site: gopher://gopher.aquarius.null/.  Problem is, the
domain is hosted by an alternative DNS root (which shouldn't be affected whether
moz displays it or not).  It goes in and out, now.  Sometimes I can view it,
other times I try to refresh and it disappears.

I still haven't been able to see, say, the WELL, /at all/.  I can view it in
other clients fine.

As a sidenote, I recently downloaed Moz 0.9.3 just to get the neato tree menu,
and all works fine with any site that exists.

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

the target milestone is whn its meant to be fixed, not what version it was
reported in.

Note that gopher isn't very good about reporting errors, so you won't get a
popup for a domain name error, for example

Again, I can't reproduce this. Are you using a proxy of some sort, or something?

-> networking

Comment 4

[Aaron Angel]

No, I'm not using a proxy at all; and the server is in the same subnet, so I
know there's not a possibility of a transparent proxy from my ISP interfering.

I've further noticed that I can, at times, get the main gopher menu up to a
site, but clicking on a link produces a blank menu, and then trying to access
the main menu again in whatever way produces a blank menu again...sort of a
`one-time' gopher menu.  Nor can I retrieve files after the first try, even by
manually typing the URL.

Comment 5

[James "Kovu" Russell]

I can confirm that NONE of the Gopher sites in this bug gives me more than a
header. No menu, no errors, NADA. The third site,
gopher://gopher.aquarius.null/, won't even TRY to load. Confirming bug.

Win XP Pro Gold
2002033009

Comment 6

[Aaron Angel]

Just as a note, gopher.aquarius.null is not going to be accessible by many 
given the nature of the domain name, which is not in ICANN namespace; the TLD 
is hosted by an alternative DNS root system, OpenNIC.  However, it's address 
resolves to the same as gopher.infoarc.sodaknet.com.

Comment 7

[benc]

qa to gopherqa.

added sub-component to summary for searchability.

By "menu", I assume you mean that the top-level menu (displayed as folders in
HTML view or a outline in XUL view).

This is broken for me in both views, Mozilla 1.0 RC1/Win98. 

I also put a new gopher link that should be visible to everyone and checked that
it is working fine in Comm 4.

Comment 8

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

This (still) WFM