149377 - nppdf.so plugin thinks it is Shockwave Flash

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Plugins Graveyard :: Shockwave (Adobe), defect)

Description

[Charles Slivkoff]

My apologies if this has already been submitted, but I could not find any
indication of it. #51376 may be related

After adding nppdf.so to the plugins directory, about:plugins lists it as:

    nppdf.so

    File name: /opt/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so

    Mime Type                        Description           Suffixes  Enabled
    application/x-shockwave-flash    Shockwave Flash       swf       Yes
    application/futuresplash         FutureSplash Player   spl       Yes

Comment 1

[Jim Dunn]

I believe this to be a shockwave bug since other 
HP plugins work fine. reassigning

Comment 2

[Peter Lubczynski]

I think this is our bug. I've seen something similar on Mac before. Acrobat
doesn't report one of the fields in about:plugins and we get confused.

Comment 3

[Peter Lubczynski]

I think this is our bug. I've seen something similar on Mac before. Acrobat
doesn't report one of the fields in about:plugins and we get confused.

Setting a breakpoint, what does nppdf.so return for NP_GetMIMEDescription?

Comment 4

[serge (gone)]

Chuck, could you please attach nppdf.so you are using to this bug report.
Thanks.

Comment 5

[Charles Slivkoff]

Attachment: Acrobat plug-in for HP-UX

This is the nppdf.so from Adobe's download:

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/hpux-rs-405.tar.gz

Comment 6

[serge (gone)]

just tried attachment 87235 [details] saved as nppdf.sl 
with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020610
Netscape/7.0b1 build on HP-UX B.11.00 E 9000/785 2001436499
I've got
Mime Type       Description              Suffixes Enabled 
application/pdf Portable Document Format pdf      Yes

Comment 7

[Martin Lawyer]

It would appear that this problem is resolved with Mozilla 1.0/1.1 and NS 7.0. 
The attached plugin loads and identifies itself correctly, and using it I can
view PDF documents. 

Updating QA contact. 

Comment 8

[Rick Takeda]

Changing QA Contact from me to Keith Tadej.  He has been researching this issue.

Comment 9

[Charles Slivkoff]

This has re-surfaced, with build:

  Mozilla 1.1

  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/780; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020828

in about:plugins:

nppdf.so

    File name: nppdf.so

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
* All types .* Yes

Comment 10

[rubydoo123]

Shrir: can you please check this out on linux using a current trunk build.

Comment 11

[Martin Lawyer]

If you copy the .sl files into the plugins/ directory (not use soft links), and
then "touch plugins/nppdf.sl"  (making the file modification time more recent
than the Flash plugin), the browser will load the PDF plugin first, and it will
be registered correctly. 

Also worth noting:

-  the shockwave plugin currently available for HPUX at shockwave.com is only
for Netscape 4.x, and is not claimed to work for 6.x/7.x. 
-  the Acrobat plugin seems to work fine if it is loaded first, or is the only
plugin (even though the Acrobat download page says that only the helper app
works for HPUX)

Comment 12

[Martin Lawyer]

Things seem to show up in the about:plugins list correctly if they load in the
following order also: 

libflashplayer.so
libnullplugin.sl
nppdf.sl

Comment 13

[Martin Lawyer]

A tar file containing the latest Shockwave and Acrobat Reader plugins for HPUX
can be downloaded here:

ftp://depot.netscape.com/private/martinl/plugins.tar.gz

Contents:
a plugins/libflashplayer.sl 2696 blocks
a plugins/libnullplugin.sl 64 blocks
a plugins/nppdf.sl 314 blocks
a plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class 6 blocks


It was too big (>300k) to attach to the bug. 

Comment 14

[Dan Weinstein]

I'm seeing the shockwave MIME Description when GetMIMEDescription is called for
the pdf plugin.

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you see this problem using latest version of flash (10) and firefox?

Comment 16

[Charles Slivkoff]

I may be able to test this in the next two weeks, assuming I can get access to an HP-UX system.

Comment 17

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

assuming no results.