523510 - Link to a search plugin for bugzilla needs to be updated

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Khalil Fazal [:kfazal]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 - Build ID: 20090824085743

Here is the link: javascript:window.external.AddSearchProvider('https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/search_plugin.cgi')

XPath to link:
/html/body/div[3]/div/table/tbody/tr/td/ul/li[8]/a

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go on the page and click on the link
Actual Results:  
Error Window: 
"This search engine isn't supported by Firefox and can't be installed."


Seriously... "requires Firefox 2 or Internet Explorer 7"?

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

I cannot reproduce the problem. This works perfectly well with Firefox 3.5.4.

Comment 2

[Khalil Fazal [:kfazal]]

Do you see in brackets on the page: "(requires Firefox 2 or Internet Explorer 7)"?

Comment 3

[Marko Kohtala]

I have this same problem. I run Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729).

I got it working after I changed the MIME type. Here are the lines from search_plugin.cgi after I commented out the wrong type and added the correct type:

# Return the appropriate HTTP response headers.
#print $cgi->header('application/xml');
print $cgi->header('application/opensearchdescription+xml');

Comment 4

[Khalil Fazal [:kfazal]]

Attachment: Search Plugin Patch

- make sure its saved as .xml and not as .cgi
- our work isnt done, I'm sure the <a></a> tag has to be changed but I'm not sure how
see:

Comment 5

[Khalil Fazal [:kfazal]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=424265) [details]
> Search Plugin Patch
> 
> - make sure its saved as .xml and not as .cgi
> - our work isnt done, I'm sure the <a></a> tag has to be changed but I'm not
> sure how
> see:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

Comment 6

[Marko Kohtala]

I do not understand why this was changed to VERIFIED. There is still wrong Content-type in CVS, the Install the Quick Search plugin on Main Page does not work for all users. This is still unresolved.

Comment 7

[Marko Kohtala]

My comment was wrong. The error was not due to wrong MIME type. Now it seems I tried the link when I was not logged in and after I changed the MIME type I must have been logged in.

The link is shown on Main Page when user is not logged in. We have requirelogin set to On and apparently the search_plugin.cgi does not work when not logged in.