Closed
Bug 131937
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
Offline: network connections should be cleanly closed
Categories
(Core :: Networking, defect)
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VERIFIED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: moz, Unassigned)
Details
Build Linux 0.9.9 and 2002031721
Reproducable: Often
I'm using an ISDN dial-up connection where I pay on a per time-unit base.
Therefore I often go offline and disconnect to read the downloaded mail. Often,
going online afterwards doesn't work, even though other programms can use the
internet connection whereas mozilla can't.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Establish your internet connection.
2. Start mozilla, surf and download mail.
3. Click the online/offline icon to go offline.
4. Disconnect from the internet.
5. Dial in again.
6. Be sure you have a working connection with a different programm.
7. Click the online/offline icon to go online.
8. Try to surf or download mail.
Result:
Often the throbber spins endlessly and nothing will help to make mozilla
connect. Restarting mozilla always works, with or without redialing the
connection. This seems to have gotten worse between 0.9.8 and 0.9.9. Does
mozilla "remember" anything from the "old" connection? Like resolved domain
names, local IP (I'm getting the IP over DHCP), ports, unfinished timeouts,
anything?
Expected result:
Going offline/online should have the same effect as restarting mozilla
(concerning the ability to connect to the internet).
I've tried it also with LiveConnect disabled, doesn't help.
I've tested this thoroughly with linux 2002032808. It seems, that not using the
"go offline icon" increases your chance of getting a connection after redialing.
Weird.
Comment 2•23 years ago
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do you means mozilla should save state of online&offline when mozilla restart.
No, it's about going offline while mozilla is running (to save a few cents on
your telephone bill) and then going online again (using the symbol in the bottom
right corner). Mozilla very often won't connect to the internet again (even
though other applications succesfully use the newly established connection).
This should be fixed now. Mozilla should refetch the DNS entries. I can't test
this as I'm behind a router now and have fixed DNS entries.
Could someone verify that this is fixed now?
Reporter,
I'm not sure I see your problem.
I'm using Red Hat Linux release 7.0 [Kernel 2.2.16-22enterprise on an i686]
and I tried both commercial builds:
branch
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607
trunk 2002060708
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020607
And I dont see your problem at all.
I assume you are using an Imap mail acnt?
Here's what I did using your steps to reproduce:
>1. Establish your internet connection.
I'm not using a dial up network but i'm connected to network here at work
>2. Start mozilla, surf and download mail.
Surfed net, started messenger, logged into my imap acnt,
selected a imap folder, did a right click, properties,clicked offline tab,
clicked download now button
>3. Click the online/offline icon to go offline.
was prompted to download and said no since I downloaded in step 2.
>4. Disconnect from the internet.
I pulled out my network cord from my computer
Read my offline mail and had no problems
>5. Dial in again.
I reconnected my network cord
>6. Be sure you have a working connection with a different programm.
brought up terminal window and i 'pinged' yahoo.com and got response back
>7. Click the online/offline icon to go online.
>8. Try to surf or download mail.
I was able to surf, get new mail, download mail, and no problems.
In comment 4 you imply this was fixed? By whom? what bug?
I think this has always worked as far as I know. Can you give
me details about your linux machine and type of mail acccount?
Comment 6•23 years ago
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I believe this is a dup, and has been fixed with some dns cleanup.
I think this could be a duplicate of bug 117628, it was fixed on 2002-05-08. As
I can't verify anymore whether the behaviour described here still is present, I
wanted someone else to verify this. If it's a dupe you would have to have a
network connection where you get new nameservers when you reconnect. You most
probably won't be able to reproduce this by pulling your network cable.
I'm now quite sure that this is a dupe of bug 117628, but it would still be nice
if someone with a dial-up connection (with DHCP for DNS too) could verify this.
Marking WorksForMe because I don't have the means to test this anymore. Not
really an accurate resolution but like this it's at least of the radar.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Arthur: I've got most of those tests in an up-coming connectivity test.
There have been a couple changes in the underlying API's, which should make
online -> offline -> online behave cleanly.
If not, I'd like to see new bugs, w/ steps for each case, because the problem
could be related to the specific module (chat, mailnews, etc.)
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Summary: Going offline/online should reset all network connections → Offline: network connections should be cleanly closed
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