215575 - Cannot use applet <param> tags with Mozilla browsers.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 145979

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Gerry Reno]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

I am experiencing same behavior with Mozilla 1.0.1 (yes I know its old) and 
with Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1

using either applet or object tags, none of the parameters are available to be 
read by getParameter() which is returning null.  All of my applets are working 
in other browsers.  It's only Mozilla browsers where they are failing.

Try to read parameters using getParameter("file1") with a parameter tag like so:
<param name="file1" value="myfile">

results in a null pointer being returned only in Mozilla browsers.

This is very critical as NONE of my applets work with Mozilla browsers since 
they all use <param> tags!

I have tried this on both Windows and Linux platforms with the same results.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create an applet that reads parameters using getParameter()
2.add <applet> or <object> tags to invoke applet
3.add <param name="___" value="___"> inside <applet> or <object> tag.
4.access webpage containing applet.

Actual Results:  
Java console shows NPE.

Expected Results:  
Allowed the applet access to the elements of the <param> tags so that they can 
be loaded by the getParameter() method.

Comment 1

[Gerry Reno]

Followup:
Here is what a typical html <object> tag looks like:

<object
   classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93"
codebase="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.4/jinstall-14-win32.cab#Version=1,4,0,mn"
  codetype="application/java"
      size="full"
     width="240" 
    height="200" 
     align=middle >
<param name="size" value="full">
<param name="code" value="pa.ck.age.MyClass.class">
<param name="codebase" value="applets">
<param name="archive" value="myapplet.jar">
<param name="file1" value="myfile">
</object>

Comment 2

[Gerry Reno]

Updated example:
  Forget the previous example it was based on one of my windows only applets.

Here's from a general applet:

<object
   classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93"
codebase="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.4/jinstall-14-win32.cab#Version=1,4,0,mn"
  codetype="application/java"
      size="full"
     width="240" 
    height="200" 
     align=middle >
<param name="size" value="full">
<param name="code" value="pa.ck.age.MyClass.class">
<param name="codebase" value="applets">
<param name="archive" value="myapplet.jar">
<param name="file1" value="myfile">
 <comment>
  <embed 
 pluginspage="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.4/plugin-install.html"
     align=middle
      type="application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.4"
      code="pa.ck.age.MyClass.class"
  codebase="applets" 
   archive="myapplet.jar"
      size="full" 
     width="240" 
    height="200" > 
  <noembed>
A Java applet should be here<br />
  </noembed>
 </comment>
<param name="file1" value="myfile">
A Java applet should be here<br />
 <comment>
  </embed>
 </comment>
</object>

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Garry, please don't file a duplicate bug against firebird, I can see you already
found the original, albeit unconfirmed, and commented there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145979 ***

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Verified using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b)
Gecko/20030817 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+