290550 - when the update RDF is unavailable Firefox reports update available and displays an empty listing

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Chase Phillips]

When the update RDF is unavailable Firefox reports there is an update available
and displays an empty listing.  I just hit this by chance while UMO admins were
doing server maintenance.  The RDF status went through two phases: missing and
server misconfiguration.  In both cases, Firefox displayed the wizard interface
and where when an update is present the "Firefox 1.0.X (en-US)" entry appears
instead a blank box was shown.

I'm under the impression that the expected result when the RDF is unavailable or
there is no stanza for the user's version is to infer that no updates are
available.  We should correct this behaviour for 1.0.3+ or 1.1.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** Bug 302015 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** Bug 302068 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

I don't think this is still an issue under the new update service. 

Comment 4

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

That is correct. Update displays a brief message that no new updates are
available.  Verifying against recent trunk builds.

Comment 5

[Chase Phillips]

(In reply to comment #4)
> That is correct. Update displays a brief message that no new updates are
> available.  Verifying against recent trunk builds.

Just curious, did you try changing app.update.url to a URL which references a
non-existent XML file?