Closed Bug 281287 Opened 20 years ago Closed 18 years ago

should use error page instead of Alert for NSS errors

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, enhancement, P2)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Security: UI
Version:
Other Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: chpe, Assigned: Biesinger)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: [kerh-ehz]) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050106 Galeon/1.3.19 (Debian package 1.3.19-1ubuntu1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050106 Galeon/1.3.19 (Debian package 1.3.19-1ubuntu1)

(I hope I picked the right component, sorry if I erred.)

When an attempt to load a page over https fails, mozilla should display an error
page like for network errors (browser.xul.error_pages.enabled = true), instead
of displaying a modal alert.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to about:config
2. Set security.enable_ssl2 to false
3. Try to load https://www.networksolutions.com/
4. Continue with your regular browsing in another tab or window
Actual Results:  
Displays an modal alert "You cannot connect to www.networksolutions.com because
SSL version 2 is disabled.".

Expected Results:  
Doesn't disturb your browsing, just displays an error page instead in the tab
where you tried to load https://www.networksolutions.com/.

The alerts are produced from
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/security/manager/ssl/src/nsNSSIOLayer.cpp#433
Assignee: wtchang → cbiesinger
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Libraries → Client Library
Ever confirmed: true
Product: NSS → PSM
Priority: -- → P2
Product: PSM → Core
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Summary: should use error page instead of Alert for error message which don't result in a page → should use error page instead of Alert for NSS errors
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Severity: normal → enhancement
Whiteboard: [kerh-ehz]
*** Bug 317039 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 107491
I fixed this bug. See bug 107491.
No longer blocks: 107491
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Depends on: 107491
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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