Closed Bug 658270 Opened 14 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Autoconfig file is needed to be converted to ROT13 for TB 3.1.10 for Windows only

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

x86_64
Windows 7
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: fabien.dupont, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: regression)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.57 Safari/534.24 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 We use autconfig since Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.0 with a great pleasure. But, while testing the new 3.1.10 version of Thunderbird, I found that the autoconfig file isn't loading anymore and, worst of all, Thunderbird won't load anymore. First, my customized config files : greprefs/all.js : pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); pref("general.config.filename", "autoconfig-onera.cfg"); autoconfig-onera.cfg : // Autoconfig ONERA try { lockPref("general.config.vendor", "autoconfig-onera"); lockPref("autoadmin.global_config_url","http://www-sri.onecert.fr/cgi-bin/mozilla-glob-prefs-onera.cgi"); } catch(e) { displayError("Error", e); } With this config, everything is OK for : - Thunderbird 1.0 to 3.1.10 for Linux (CentOS 5.5) - Thunderbird 1.5 to 3.0.11 for Windows (Windows XP x32 or Windows 7 x64) - Firefox 1.5 to 4.0.1 for Linux or Windows So, only with Thunderbird 3.1.10 for Windows 7 x64, the application won't load with a "Can't load configuration files" message...that's annoying. The log file (with debugging activated) contains no particular errors : 0[932140]: general.config.filename = autoconfig-onera.cfg 0[932140]: evaluating .cfg file autoconfig-onera.cfg with obscureValue 0 After some research I found that the autoconfig file (autoconfig-onera.cfg here) need to be converted to ROT 13 (with http://www.alain.knaff.lu/howto/MozillaCustomization/cgi/byteshf.cgi for example) and general.config.obscure_value has to be set to 0 (zero). Is it a bug ? a new feature ? maybe both ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Thunderbird 3.1.11 for Windows 2.Add an autoconfig file 3.Launch the application Actual Results: The application can't start and a message saying "Can't load the configuration files" is displayed. Expected Results: The application should start and load the autoconfig file correctly.
Version: unspecified → 3.1

This far down the track, I see the changes here documented at Mozillazine. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences

pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); // only needed if you do not want to obscure the content with ROT-13

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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