496594 - [nsIXMLHttpRequest.send] error while running Geolocation test in PB mode

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

Seen while running Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090604 Firefox/3.5b99

STR:
1. Enter PB mode.
2. Launch the test site in the URL field
3. Observe Error

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.send]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///Users/marcia/Desktop/RC/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/NetworkGeolocationProvider.js :: anonymous :: line 261"  data: no]
Source File: file:///Users/marcia/Desktop/RC/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/NetworkGeolocationProvider.js
Line: 261

The error on Line: 261 correlates to xhr.send(jsonString);

Running a pretty fresh profile with one extension installed, a Master Password set and FIPS mode enabled.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

So I do not see this same error running the latest nightly,  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090605 Shiretoko/3.5pre.

Using 3.5b99 I disabled FIPs and the one extension I installed and the error still shows.

Adding Ehsan since I only see the error in PB mode.

Comment 2

[:Ehsan Akhgari]

Can you run the same test on a fresh profile as well?

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

Using a fresh profile running Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090604 Firefox/3.5b99->

I do not get that error, but rather Error: JSON.parse
Source File: file:///Users/marcia/Desktop/RC/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/NetworkGeolocationProvider.js Line: 209

Line: 209 corresponds to: // if we get a bad response, we will throw and never report a location var response = JSON.parse(req.target.responseText);

Will try the latest nightly next.

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

Using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090605 Shiretoko/3.5pre with a fresh profile I get no errors in the console, so it is different than what I see using the Build in Comment 3.

Same thing happens using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090605 Minefield/3.6a1pre with a fresh profile.

Comment 5

[:Ehsan Akhgari]

This is Mac-specific; I can't reproduce it on Windows using a b99 build with a fresh profile...

(In reply to comment #4)
> Same thing happens using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US;
> rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090605 Minefield/3.6a1pre with a fresh profile.

You mean no errors observed, right?

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin (:whimboo)]

I cannot see this error when running Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090607 Shiretoko/3.5pre ID:20090607030919

Marcia, do you still see this problem? If yes, you should enable the geolocation logging and check if we send the correct string.

Comment 7

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

How do I enable the geolocation logging?

Comment 8

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Uncomment the two lines in the function 'log', here:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/src/geolocation/NetworkGeolocationProvider.js?mark=12-13

Then rebuild :) (or you can modify the jar file itself, but that's slightly more involved IMO)

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin (:whimboo)]

Marcia, it's something like:

"vi /Applications/Shiretoko.app/Contents/MacOS/components/NetworkGeolocationProvider.js"

After a restart you will find the output in the Error Console. Please mail it to me since it contains private data.

Comment 10

[Henrik Skupin (:whimboo)]

Mmh I wonder how fast you are Marcia. Have you requested the location right before entering the PB mode? So probably a running request is still in work. That could be possible when looking at:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/base/src/nsXMLHttpRequest.cpp#2485

Don't we cancel requests when switching into PB mode?

Comment 11

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

As Henrik notes in Comment 10, I am not certain whether I visited the test site first in regular mode before entering PB mode. Right now I am not able to reproduce the issue but will keep trying.  Meanwhile I will also enable the logging.

Regarding Comment 5, yes I meant no errors.

Comment 12

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Performing the following steps, I could not reproduce the error provided in comment #0 within multiple builds across OS X (as well, tested in Linux [b99])

Tested in latest 1.9.1 branch, trunk and b99 preview

1. Create a new profile
2. Entered PB mode
3. Went to bug's URL
4. Shared location, let it load for a minute
5. Checked error console

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090608 Shiretoko/3.5pre

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090604 Firefox/3.5b99

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090608 Minefield/3.6a1pre

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090605 Firefox/3.5b99

Comment 13

[Michael Newton]

I experienced the same error as the reporter when my ISP was experiencing problems. My router was giving me an IP address, so Firefox thought it was online, but it seemed like it was giving this error when it couldn't contact the location provider.

I'm not on that computer now, so don't have a UA string, but it was 3.5b4 on an Intel Mac.

Comment 14

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

I can reproduce the error easily using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2.

With a fresh profile,
1. Start Private Browsing
2. Load http://maps.google.com/ and click the small circle below the navigation pad at the top.
3. Receive the error.

Comment 15

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

The other things I have enabled are:

1. Master Password + FIPS turned on.

I had installed Firebug and Adblock plus, but I disabled both issues and I still see the error in Comment 14.

Comment 16

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

marcia, can you show me this tomorrow/monday?

Comment 17

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

I am actually seeing this error with the 3.6 beta build - I will show the issue to dougt in the machine in the lab. I am running Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b1) Gecko/20091019 Firefox/3.6b1.

Comment 18

[Hanno Schlichting]

Rechecked with modern private browsing mode and http://html5demos.com/geo this works. The code in question is wrapped in a try and properly notifies an error upstream should the xhr fail.