Closed
Bug 214819
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
sidebar - can't add tabs [bad link dirt.netscape.com]
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
mozilla1.7alpha
People
(Reporter: rnorberg, Assigned: irongut)
References
Details
Attachments
(2 files)
1.14 KB,
patch
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1.17 KB,
patch
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 sidebar/tabs/customize sidebar/find more tabs..." bad link dirt.netscape.com The link for adding more tabs to the sidebar ( search, bookmarks, history) is bad. "Connection refused" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open sidebar/tabs/customize sidebar/find more tabs..." 2.dirt.netscape.com is automaitcally opened 3. Actual Results: the connection is refused Expected Results: webpage should open with a list of tabs that you can add to your sidebar.
Comment 1•21 years ago
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Mozilla 2003080103-trunk/OS X these actions lead me to: http://dmoz.org/Netscape/Sidebar/ oh, and... -> Sidebar
Assignee: chanial → shliang
Component: Bookmarks → Sidebar
QA Contact: petersen → sujay
Comment 2•21 years ago
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Verifying 2003072904 PC/WinXP Even dmoz's sidebar links depend on dirt.netscape.com to install, and apparently that server is gone.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 3•21 years ago
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I have in the past reported this to webmaster@netscape.com, webmaster@dmoz.org, and through the Help feedback form at http://help.netscape.com/feedback.html but never received a response from any of them.
This seems fixed because I get a nice list on: http://dmoz.org/Netscape/Sidebar/
FAIL Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Did you look at the links in http://dmoz.org/Netscape/Sidebar/? They all fail - they point to dirt.netscape.com
Yeah so I notices. They all fail for me. So your steps to reproduce this bug are a bit confusing. New steps to Reproduce: 1)open the sidebar with F9 or menu/view/show-hide/sidebar 2)click on 'Tabs' and select either menu item 'Customize Sidebar...' or 'Sidebar Directory...' 3)click on 'Find more tabs' in case you used 'Customize Sidebar...' 4)select any of thelinks on http://dmoz.org/Netscape/Sidebar/ to install the selected sidebar Current result: you click on a link like this: <a href="http://info.netscape.com/fwd/sidusdir/http://dirt.netscape.com/cgi-bin/sidebar.cgi?title=Amy+Pietz+Info&URL=http://www.execpc.com/~mdh/amypietz/sidebar.html">Amy Pietz Info</a> and http://info.netscape.com/fwd/sidusdir redirects you to http://dirt.netscape.com but that server is no longer available, like Bill Mason pointed out in comment #2, and that's why we end up with the error: "The connection was refused when attemting to contact dirt.netscape.com" What we need is a server with that CGI script but I don't know what that script did.
Comment 7•21 years ago
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Wouldn't this be more an evangelism bug to get the dmoz.org site to update their links. Looking at the site it needs volunteers to edit this category. However, if they don't, do we have another site we can link to with valid links?
Well, maybe this has something to do with the AOL/Time Warner -> The Mozilla Foundation transition for the mozilla browser. Maybe more Netscape services will be lost over time, who nows? For example, who do you think will/can update http://devedge.netscape.com/ now that all Netscape browser employees have been dismissed months ago...
Comment 9•21 years ago
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The following HTML (courtesy of Netscape DevEdge) can be used to create sidebars, without dirt.netscape.com <html> <head> <title> test </title> <!-- This code is © Netscape Communications Corporation, 2003 --> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> function addNetscapePanel() { if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof window.sidebar.addPanel == "function")) { window.sidebar.addPanel ("INSERT NAME HERE", "INSERT URL HERE",""); } else { var rv = window.confirm ("This page is enhanced for use with Netscape 6/7. " + "Would you like to upgrade now?"); if (rv) document.location.href = "http://home.netscape.com/download/index.html"; } } //--> </SCRIPT> </head> <body> <a href="javascript:addNetscapePanel()"><img src="http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/sidebar/add-button.gif" alt="Add to Sidebar"></a> </body> </html> Insert the name in the specified location, and insert the URL in the URL location and you should be sorted... NB: The "URL" is a bit in the full URL i.e http://info.netscape.com/fwd/sidusdir/http://dirt.netscape.com/cgi-bin/sidebar.cgi?title=Amy+Pietz+Info&URL=http://www.execpc.com/~mdh/amypietz/sidebar.html means the URL is http://www.execpc.com/~mdh/amypietz/sidebar.html means the URL is . Hth, and if you really want dirt.nscp.com back (dirt01 and dirt04 are still up i think, but they dont have the script) contact netscape's "world headquarters" and ask for the IC people maybe?
Comment 10•21 years ago
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Surely not being able to add sidebars from a page linked to from the Add Sidebar dialog is a major usability issue? One possible solution to this ... contact dmoz.org and get them to update the URL. I see there is no volunteer for this category.
Severity: normal → major
Flags: blocking1.7a?
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Summary: sidebar - find more tabs bad link dirt.netscape.com → sidebar - can't add tabs [bad link dirt.netscape.com]
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.7alpha
Comment 11•21 years ago
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Any idea how we can contact the DMOZ staff other than phoning up Netscape HQ and hoping that AOL have kept at least one person on to operate dmoz? Cheers :)
Flags: blocking1.7a?
Comment 13•21 years ago
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Possible short term solution. Use: http://channel.netscape.com/sidebar/sbd/index.tmpl
Assignee: shliang → neil.parkwaycc.co.uk
QA Contact: sujay → asa
Comment 14•21 years ago
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(In reply to comment #13) > Possible short term solution. Use: > > http://channel.netscape.com/sidebar/sbd/index.tmpl yup seems Netscape have fixed their site :) works for me.
Comment 15•21 years ago
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re-nominating. only drivers can set (+) blocking flags.
Flags: blocking1.7a+ → blocking1.7a?
Comment 16•21 years ago
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it wasnt me who had originally set it (but i had accidently unset it) thus I set it again. The Netscape site appears to be working for now, which is good since i doubt dirt.netscape.com will be back.
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Comment 17•21 years ago
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Better would be to have our own sidebar directory and not rely on a Netscape resource which could dissapear at any time. This could be done as a mozdev project similar to the Themes project. I'd be willing to help, any other volunteers?
Comment 18•21 years ago
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It does help to remove the old dependency too...
No longer depends on: 216166
Comment 19•21 years ago
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Seeking review. This patches changes the default sidebar directory to: http://channel.netscape.com/sidebar/sbd/index.tmpl
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Comment 20•21 years ago
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Daniel Wang and myself have started a sidebar directory project on mozdev. I'd request you leave any patch until we have something up and running (soon hopefully) and then link to sidebars.mozdev.org.
Updated•21 years ago
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Assignee: neil.parkwaycc.co.uk → stolenclover
Updated•21 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Updated•21 years ago
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Flags: blocking1.7a? → blocking1.7a-
Comment 21•20 years ago
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Daniel, irongut, what is the status of sidebars.mozdev.org? Is it ready to go live?
Comment 22•20 years ago
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(In reply to comment #21) Is a good idea to add other user-oriented project to the Mozdev during time, when mozdev has problems with bandwidth? What some sidebars.mozilla.org? or sidebars.mozillazine.org? There could be only world-wide sidebars. The country oriented sidebars and english sidebars can be on different servers (e.g. Czech sidebars are on http://www.czilla.cz/sidebars/panels/all-panels.rdf now) and the main server should only link to them.
Assignee | ||
Comment 23•20 years ago
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(In reply to comment #21) > Daniel, irongut, what is the status of sidebars.mozdev.org? Is it ready to go live? Unfortunaely no. Daniel chose to use xhtml which I'm not familiar with so I haven't been able to help. Having a look at the site he's got a basic framework up so I'll contact him again and see if I can help now.
Comment 24•20 years ago
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Requesting blocking 1.7. I know it's late in the game, but perhaps we could just use the attached patch for the 1.7-branch only to have a working sidebar page in the next release? For 1.8 and later sidebars.mozdev.org may be ready.
Flags: blocking1.7?
Comment 25•20 years ago
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Comment on attachment 140594 [details] [diff] [review] proposed short-term fix This patch was based on r3.471.8.2, which was Mozilla: v1.5rc2, v1.5 FireBird: v0.7, v0.7.1 It has much bitrotted: no more "custtoolbar", --> no more "sidebar", <-- only |prefs.converted-to-utf8| remains, at http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js#717. This patch should probably be obsoleted; I don't know about the current bug status...
Comment 26•20 years ago
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Good catch. It looks like they have moved to browser-prefs.js http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/bootstrap/browser-prefs.js#166 I don't have a 1.7 tree currently ... if someone does please roll off a new patch if you get a chance.
Comment 27•20 years ago
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Change the two prefs in browser-prefs.js.
Comment 28•20 years ago
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plussing for now. another solution might be to simply remove the feature.
Flags: blocking1.7? → blocking1.7+
Comment 29•20 years ago
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I may be able to just edit the sidebar listings at dmoz or find someone who can.
Comment 30•20 years ago
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Another alternative might be to use sidebars.mozdev.org, if that indeed will ultimately be the sidebars place, and just redirect to a working location, e.g. http://channel.netscape.com/sidebar/sbd/index.tmpl, in the interim, ?
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Comment 31•20 years ago
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(In reply to comment #30) > Another alternative might be to use sidebars.mozdev.org, if that indeed will > ultimately be the sidebars place, and just redirect to a working location, e.g. > http://channel.netscape.com/sidebar/sbd/index.tmpl, in the interim, ? I can setup a redirect for now if that's what is wanted. Just let me know. BTW had no reply from Daniel about the project.
Comment 32•20 years ago
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> Another alternative might be to use sidebars.mozdev.org,
The intent for sidebars.mozdev.org is to manage a list of sidebars that browser
vendors can use. Currently browsers that support sidebars are Mozilla, Opera,
and Konqueror (I think). Because the sidebars listed in Mozilla are actually
remote RDFs, and Mozilla queries for the files every time the user open the
Customize Sidebar dialog, I'd prefer mozilla.org hosts these files on their
servers. For Web directory, I think we should direct to mozilla.org, which then
redirect to sidebars.mozdev.org (provided, that sidebars.mozdev.org is
completed). If the traffic is too high, we can then host the Web pages on
mozilla.org.
btw, irongut, I think you have CVS access to the sidebars project. I don't have
time for this now, so please go ahead developing the site :-)
Assignee: stolenclover → irongut
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Comment 33•20 years ago
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I've got access to the dmoz.org netscape sidebar category so I can edit the listings there. If I can manage that, this bug doesn't need to be a blocker. If I can't fix the links then we'll need to temporarily update the link to point to something working, probably the other Netscape URL or a mozilla.org url with a redirect to the netscape URL.
Comment 34•20 years ago
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So I can hand-edit each of the links at dmoz but without the server that contains the javascript for adding sidebars, I'm kinda stuck. I guess I could turn them all into javascript URLs that contain the add sidebar script but I'm not sure if that's the right way to go. The other alternative would be to point to one of our (mozilla.org or mozdev if it could handle the traffic) servers that handled that but I don't have the expertise to set that up. What do you all think?
Comment 35•20 years ago
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OK, I'm gonna just javascript url them all, so here's what it'll look like: http://info.netscape.com/fwd/sidusdir/http://dirt.netscape.com/cgi-bin/sidebar.cgi?title=Amy+Pietz+Info&URL=http://www.execpc.com/~mdh/amypietz/sidebar.html becomes javascript:window.sidebar.addPanel('Amy Pietz Info','http://www.execpc.com/~mdh/amypietz/sidebar.html','') Anyone have any objections before I go to work on this?
Comment 36•20 years ago
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OK. This is no longer a blocker. The sidebar listings that currently go through the dead dirt server are all being updated (thanks Don Wiebe!!) to just have javascript URLs as noted in my above comment. I think that long-term, we should put a link into the client that we control and redirect to dmoz or whatver sidebar directory makes sense (even the dmoz directory might move, from Netscape to Mozilla categories, for example).
Flags: blocking1.7+
Comment 37•20 years ago
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(In reply to comment #35) > Anyone have any objections before I go to work on this? The addPanel function has 3 parameters. See http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpfe/components/sidebar/src/nsSidebar.js#114 114 nsSidebar.prototype.addPanel = 115 function (aTitle, aContentURL, aCustomizeURL) The third parameter is URL on which can user configure some sidebar settings (Mozilla has button for customising current sidebar in the sidebar manager). Although the 3th parameter is not used enough (practically nobody is using it now), but we should still support it as optional parameter. So it can be: http://info.netscape.com/fwd/sidusdir/http://dirt.netscape.com/cgi-bin/sidebar.cgi?title=Amy+Pietz+Info&URL=http://www.execpc.com/~mdh/amypietz/sidebar.html&config=http://www.execpc.com/~mdh/amypietz/config.html javascript:window.sidebar.addPanel('Amy Pietz Info','http://www.execpc.com/~mdh/amypietz/sidebar.html','http://www.execpc.com/~mdh/amypietz/config.html') And the 3th parameter should be only optional.
Comment 38•20 years ago
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this is now fixed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Updated•20 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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