326680 - Change in behavior of "mozilla-xremote-client -any"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[psfales]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050927
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050927

We use a script so that clicking on http links within a mail message will open the links in a browser.  In thunderbird-1.0.7, I found that having a line in the script of the form "mozilla-xremote-client -any" worked well, as it would open
the link in either firefox or mozilla if the user happened to have either or those browsers running.

Starting with thunderbird-1.5, the same command results in a the message "Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird
2. Start Firefox
2. From a shell prompt run: mozilla-xremote-client -a any openurl(http://www.mozilla.org, new-tab)
Actual Results:  
An error message is printed in the shell window:
...mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable

Expected Results:  
The running firefox should open a new tab with the specified URL

It works if you use "mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox openurl(http://www.mozilla.org, new-tab)"

Comment 1

[John Levon]

Try removing the space: I believe this is a known, fixed bug. So if that works for
you, please find the bug here on bugzilla and mark this as a duplicate, thanks.

Comment 2

[psfales]

I haven't looked at this for a while, but I tried it with thunderbird-2.0.0.16 and the problem appears to be fixed.   (It's not even necessary to remove the space)