22269 - javascript error in Netscape (query.cgi)

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew Brealey]

Netscape comes up with a javascript error - selectProduct is not defined.

I believe the problem is that it doesn't onLoad properly - it should have read
the subsequent stuff before, otherwise it wouldn't have loaded.

Tried sticking onload at bottom of SCRIPT, but perhaps better is to
put it on its own as the last thing in the file in a SCRIPT block.

Comment 1

[Richard Lloyd]

I get this in NS 3.04 too (HP-UX 10.20) - my suggestion for a fix is to
set up a SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript section (before the JavaScript1.2 code)
with dummy functions (e.g. a SelectProduct() routine that does nothing).
I suspect that SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript1.2 causes that code to be skipped
with NS 3.X. By defining dummy functions, you can satisfy the onLoad() for
all versions and re-define it for 1.2 or higher.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I was encountering this problem with Netscape Communicator 4.7...  not on this
site, but on my own bugzilla site.  I eliminated the onLoad() part from the
header on the query.cgi page and the javascript error did not ocurr, but the
page never finished loading, either.  I'm also having trouble getting
show_bug.cgi to load. After more experimenting, I discovered that if I commented
out this chunk of code in CGI.pl, that the pages completed loading:

#    if (Param("shutdownhtml")) {
#        if (!$ignoreshutdown) {
#            print Param("shutdownhtml");
#            exit;
#        }
#    }

This did not happen until the first time I ran tweakparams after upgrading to
Bugzilla 2.9.  I think the shutdownhtml code is getting set to something on
accident during tweakparams even if you leave it empty...

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I forgot to mention there that the cause of the "selectProgram not defined" error

was because the page didn't finish loading, and the script itself hadn't been 

transmitted yet.

Comment 4

[Jens-Uwe Gaspar]

Maybe I have a solution for your problem (sorry for this double-entry).
Have a look to my comments for Bug #5249 ([e-mail]  2000-02-13 19:41).

Comment 5

[Joseph Elwell]

Originally this was posted as "Javascript error in NS 3.01 under win31". But I'm
getting this consistently with winNT N4.61. I load the page completely the first
time and I get this error, each subsequent load gives me the same error.

Comment 6

[Terry Weissman]

[e-mail] is the new owner of Bugzilla and Bonsai.  (For details,
see my posting in netscape.public.mozilla.webtools,
news://news.mozilla.org/38F5D90D.F40E8C1A%40geocast.com .)

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has not been touched for more than nine months. In most cases, that 
means it has "slipped through the net". Please could the owner take a moment to 
add a comment to the bug with current status, and/or close it.

Thank you :-)

Gerv

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I think this was fixed in Bug 44076.

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to real milestones...

Comment 10

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Mass moving to new product Bugzilla...

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Closing as WFM.

Gerv

Comment 12

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

clearing milestone for invalid/wontfix/worksforme/duplicate so they'll show up
as untriaged if they get reopened.

Comment 13

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified and not a windows 3.1 issue