316227 - In <connection-xpcom.js>, "Error Exception nsIScriptableInputStream.read NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_NATIVE bc_readdata"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 316178

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051112 SeaMonkey/1.5a] (nightly) (W98SE)

I used ChatZilla (for the first time since a long long time)
and got disconnected after a few tens of seconds,
with
{{
Error: [Exception... "Could not convert Native argument arg 1 [nsIScriptableInputStream.read]"  nsresult: "0x8057000a (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_NATIVE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://chatzilla/content/lib/js/connection-xpcom.js :: bc_readdata :: line 394"  data: no]
Source File: chrome://chatzilla/content/lib/js/connection-xpcom.js
Line: 394
}}

and after a few second I got a security dialog about a certificate ... which I dismissed without looking at it too closely.

Comment 1

[James Ross]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 316178 ***

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Agreed.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sieb]

btw, the security dialog was most likely because you were connecting to an irc server using ssl with a self-signed certificate.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> btw, the security dialog was most likely because you were connecting to an irc
> server using ssl with a self-signed certificate.

I reproduced this behaviour:
the certificate is for "*.mozilla.org",
and this is triggered by the loss of connection.

This may be only a side-effect that there is no worry to have about !?

Comment 5

[James Ross]

As ssieb said, this is because the SSL certificate used by irc.mozilla.org is self-signed, so when the connection fails ChatZilla moves on to the next server - and the second irc.mozilla.org server is the secure one, hence the annoying popup.