221324 - Get "http is not a registered protocol" error on startup; no HTTP loading

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alan Eliasen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 Linux CVS pull 20031005

After updating CVS on 2003-10-05, I get "http is not a registered protocol"
after building on Red Hat Linux 9.0.  This is the first time I've seen this
error.  I tried lots of things to clean the distribution, including make clean,
clobber, cleandist, depend, and none of these worked.  After none of these
worked, I deleted the entire mozilla source and dist directories, and pulled a
full clean version of Mozilla from CVS.  Same problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make -f client.mk  on Red Hat Linux
2. Start mozilla


Actual Results:  
Get "http is not a registered protocol" and no loading via HTTP is possible.

Comment 1

[Alan Eliasen]

Attempted to rebuild twice with different tests.  No luck.  But I do at least
have a better version number than I put in the bug report.  file: and ftp: URLs
do work, by the way.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031005

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

hm... can you load about:buildconfig and paste its content here?

Comment 3

[Alan Eliasen]

  Here are the buildconfig arguments.  I've been building on Linux for several
months and never had this problem before (I also didn't change any arguments,
compilers, etc between builds.)  Just for fun, I also tried removing all of the
optional arguments (pthreads, crypto, LDAP) below.  No luck.

--------------------------

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -pedantic -pthread -pipe
c++ 	gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) 	-fno-rtti
-fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
-Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-long-long -pedantic
-fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -I/usr/X11R6/include

Configure arguments
--with-pthreads --enable-crypto --enable-ldap-experimental 

Comment 4

[Alan Eliasen]

I deleted my entire personal profile which fixed the problem (but was painful.)

Later, rebuilding my profile, I found that the bug manifests itself when I use
the common flash-blocking code in userContent.css that I've used for a long
time.  (Listed below; I will also create as attachment.)

   Did this break for a reason?  Or did it just break?  The selective Flash
blocking below allows you to "click to play" any Flash instead of having it
autoplay.

/* Doesn't work for <embed> tags, which are less common than <object> tags - bug
190970 */
object[classid$=":D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"],
object[codebase*="swflash.cab"]
{ -moz-binding: url("http://futureboy.homeip.net/temp/flash.xml#obj"); }

Comment 5

[Alan Eliasen]

Attachment: Flash-blocking (allows "click to play") that breaks browser

This file goes in your profile's chrome directory.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Alan, what's the last build that works for you?  If we can narrow the regression
date down, that would be helpful.  My bets are on it breaking in the afternoon
on October 1.

I just tried putting that CSS in my userContent.css and it worked fine, btw.  Do
stock mozilla.org nightlies work for you?

Comment 7

[Alan Eliasen]

I downloaded Linux nightly build 2003101505 and it *does* work for me,
Flash-blocking included.  Very odd.

Unfortunately, I don't know the last build that worked for me.  I did a CVS pull
on 2003-10-04 and it broke starting with that.  I hadn't pulled for several
days.  I've tried new CVS pulls (including deleting my whole CVS tree) every day
since and none have worked.

Switching that userContent.css file in and out break and fix the browser
reliably.  By the way, that's the only thing in that file.

What do you suspect changed on October 1st?  Anything that I can test?  If I
need to pull whole CVS trees from certain dates, I can do that.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The fix for bug 113173 would make us create URI objects at sheet parse time.  If
the sheet is parsed before the HTTP protocol handler has been registered, that
could lead to the error you observe.

The sheet is parsed when we observe a profile-after-change notification, though;
I'd expect the HTTP protocol handler to be registered long before then.

I'm not sure whether you can easily back out bug 113173 and follow-ups to test;
it may be simpler to just pull by date from before that checkin and then pull by
date for a time after it...

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM in Seamonkey and Firebird nightlies on WinXP.  I even tried using your URL
for flash.xml.  I assume your home page doesn't contain any Flash.

Possibly related: bug 221973, "Image loaded from user style sheet opened in
default browser (result: infinite browser windows opened)".

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 11

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