328515 - Auto update causes dialup as soon as system restarts from hibernate

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

If automatic update is enabled, you use a dialup connection, have Firefox running, hibernate your computer and then bring it back to life, as soon as the system comes up the auto update causes a dialup, before you've even logged into the computer.  This is a problem at homes like mine where several of us share a single phone line -- it causes my computer to trash someone else's connection.

I don't thing that auto update should _ever_ cause a dialup.  It should only use an already existing connection.  I want to chose when I'm connected, I don't want any program on the computer connecting me without my permission.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Should this bug get confirmed, I'm guessing this will depend on our ability to detect if the user is online or offline. Based on that, we could only do the AUS request when online. See bug 76111.

(adding the dependency, but still awaiting confirmation)

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

Yes, I believe this bug would happen.

Comment 3

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

I suspect that pending timers fire immediately upon waking up which would cause this bug... need to think about this a bit more but I suspect this would need to be handled on the backend.

Comment 4

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

If this were to be implemented it would be best implemented in the networking code since there are many things besides app update that will initiate a connection such as this.