161739 - Synchronous nsHttpXMLTransport::Send() of a GET is async

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

Attempts to do synchronous Send()s via XMLExtras of a GET request are not
actually synchronous.  They return immediately and when GetResponseXML is called
there's no document, then the ReceiveResponse code is called with the data that
creates the document - i.e. they're being handled async.  Note that
IMPLEMENT_SYNC_LOAD is defined in nsXMLHttpRequest.h.

Also note this will break the Schema loading code (not currently turned on).

Anyone else who should be cc'd on this?  Sounds like serious event-handling-fu
is needed.

Comment 1

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

I landed some changes in our synchronous loading over the weekend (bug 166978,
bug 111614). Could you please test to see if this problem has gone away?

Comment 2

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Haven't been able to reproduce and haven't heard anything back. Closing as
worksforme. Please reopen if you see this again and try to provide a testcase.