258467 - Applet - AppletContext.showDocument("http://") fails

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew Thompson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts-MyWay)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

/** This Applet should open the specified web-page.

Note that it fails on Mozilla  versions 1.3 and 1.7.2,
with no messages in either the Java or Javascript consoles.

This might seem to relate to the following bug..
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209652
but that bug was resolved by not using the 'file:' URL
protocol, whereas this example uses a conventional web URL. */

import java.awt.Label;
import java.net.*;

public class MozillaShowDocBug extends java.applet.Applet {

  public void init() {
    add( new Label("Hi!") );
    try {
      URL url = new URL("http://www.physci.org/codes");
      getAppletContext().showDocument( url );
      add( new Label("Bye!") );
    } catch(MalformedURLException murle) {
      murle.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Note that this was tested in the 1.7.2 build 
mentioned above using Java 1.5.0 beta, as well
as Mozilla 1.3 using both Java 1.4.2 and 
1.5.0 beta.

This works fine on IE 6 using Sun Java 1.5.0 beta/1.4.2 and the MSVM
This works fine on Opera using Sun Java 1.5.0 beta/1.4.2
This works fine on Netscape Navigator 4.80 using Symantec 1.1.5 VM

I understand that the showDocument(URL, 'target')
method is free to be ignored by browsers, but the
JavaDocs imply that browsers (as opposed to applet 
viewer for instance) *should* implement showDocument(URL)

I also looked though the preferences of Mozilla to
see if I could spot any arcane setting that might 
override this default behaviour (such as disallowing
autumatic page transtions/redirects).  Nada.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile the code
2. Call it from a web page.

Actual Results:  
The labels "Hi!" and "Bye!" appeared.

Nothing else happens.

Expected Results:  
The second Label, "Bye!", should only have appeared
briefly, if at all.  The page should have changed to 
the URL specified in the code.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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