304551 - Javascript nsIXMLHttpRequest exception after extension install, uninstall, and then reinstall on addons.mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Using 20050812 build on Win2KPro.

To reproduce:

1. Install any extension (which brings up the extension manager).
2. Without closing the extension manager, uninstall the same extension.
3. Without closing the extension manager, reinstall the extension from the
original page.

Everything seems to work just fine (well, bug 302136 is still around), except
that the following exception is thrown:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.send]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10&application=firefox ::
install :: line 86"  data: no]

The URL will be different, of course, depending on which extension you use, but
the error is always the same.

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This is not an extension manager error... it is either a bug in xmlhttprequest
or in the way addons.mozilla.org is using xmlhttprequest and this does not
affect sites that install extensions without using xmlhttprequest in the script
- in this case to act as a counter for the number of times the extension has
been installed. There was a bug where this error prevented installation
previously since it happened before the call to install the extension or theme
on the web site.

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

The bug for themes and this issue is bug 295366.

Comment 3

[Cameron]

Unable to reproduce on Firefox 1.5.0.3 and Windows XP.
Currently I get the following error when installing, uninstalling, reinstalling and then navigating to a seperate page, although i suspect this may be a seperate bug.

Error: uncaught exception: Security Error: Content at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1538/ may not load data from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/paypal_send_money/paypal_send_money-1.0.1-fx.xpi.

Comment 4

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

WFM