228330 - Error dialog box doesn't appear on a framed page if the server is taken down while surfing.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Andrew Dubry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031008 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031008 Firebird/0.7+

I was surfing a framed website (internal Admin, can't give the URL sorry). It
had a top frame, a left frame, and the main body frame in the middle. It has a
bunch of links in the left frame.

I stopped the web server. Now when I click on any link on that page, it appears
to try to load the page but then just says, "Done" in the bottom status bar.
There's no "The connection was refused when attempting to contact foobar:8999"
message. That's the bug: where is the error dialog?

I have a non-framed window open on that same server and any links I click on in
THAT window do give me the error dialog. So it appears that this only happens in
a window that has frames. hitting RELOAD on the framed page gives the error
though. It's limited to clicking on links currently on the framed page while the
server is down that cause the "Done" with no error dialog bug.It caused me grief
cuz I forgot I turned off the server and without the error dialog I was
perplexed :).




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Described above in "Details".
1. load a page with frames. Make sure links on that page go to other areas of
the server but keep the frames.
2. stop the web server
3. click on a link. It tries to load but cannot of course, yet no error dialog
appears. On a non-framed page, the "The connection was refused" error box would
have popped up.

Actual Results:  
No Error dialog box pops up in a framed page.

Expected Results:  
Firebird should have displayed the "The connection was refused when attempting
to connect ....." error dialog box.

Comment 1

[Andrew Dubry]

p.s. I also confirmed this bug on a Windows 2000 box using the latest nightly
build of Firebird I just downloaded. (my linux build is about 2 months old)

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

what about using Mozilla instead of Firebird?  I think this would be an HTTP
Networking issue, but I don't have a way of testing this.

Comment 3

[Andrew Dubry]

I just confirmed the bug still exists in the Linux Firebird 0.7+ nightly build
20040123. I also tested the 20040113 release of Mozilla 1.6 and it also has the
same exact bug. I tested the bug in MS Internet Explorer 6.0 and it does NOT
have the bug. IE6.0 displays a "Action cannot be displayed" message in the
destination frame (that's the equivalent of Mozilla's "Connection refused
when..." popup dialog box). Mozilla/Firebird doesn't change the screen at all or
give any messages about the server not being up anymore, on framed pages.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->networking

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Andrew Dubry]

I just upgraded to Firefox 1.5 beta1 and tested this bug. It is indeed fixed! It
appears the dialog popup error window has been replaced. Now if the server is
done, Firefox display an entire webpage (ala Internet Explorer) describing that
the connection has failed, etc, with a message about what to do.

very nice. thanks firefox peoples!

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

For the record, this was fixed by bug 216466.