160047 - "Connection refused" sheet comes down for every instance

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Ken W]

When ad servers and such are pointed to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts or NetInfo,
every time Chimera tries to connect to one of those hosts, it drops down a sheet
saying it cannot connect to it, making you click OK or hit enter every time. 
This makes navigation very frustrating.  Neither IE nor OmniWeb does this, only
Chimera and Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Ken W]

Attachment: an example of the sheet

This happens every time one of these hostnames comes up.  For one page, I might
have to go through three or four of these!

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Ken, if you do that, you'll need to be running your web server so the
redirection has something to talk to.

(Or, this could also be Chimera's bug 28586.)

Comment 3

[Ken W]

Yeah, it does look like bug 28586.  I saw mention of a patch for Mozilla that
will change these dialogs to error messages.  Will this be available for Chimera?

Thanks.

Comment 4

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

Localhost is only a very narrow case of this bug though.  No matter what the
host, it still doesn't make sense to tell the user, say, 10 times that the host
is down, if there are 10 images.

This might happen if the host serving the pages points to an images server, for
instance.

Comment 5

[Ken W]

May I please ask if this is anywhere near being worked on?  I love Chimera, but this is really the only thing that constantly annoys me.

Thanks.

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 173400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Darin: is there a way the embedder can tell if the 'connection refused' dialog
is being shown for the main page, or some other element on the page?

Comment 8

[Darin Fisher]

i thought adam lock said he fixed this on the mozilla trunk.  perhaps chimera
just needs the same fix applied to its branch.

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Taking

Comment 10

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: Patch to nsWebShell to only show errors for the top frame. Migrated from trunk

Comment 11

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Patch checked in (patch should *not* be merged to trunk).

Comment 12

[Ken W]

I just tried the Jan. 01 build and couldn't be happier!  Thank you so much, guys!