72509 - links with target="_content" do not bring up "leaving secure site" dialog till way too late

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

BUILD: linux 2001-03-14-08, and been going on for quite some time.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1)  Make sure you have the warning for leaving secure sites on.
2)  Install the Bugzilla sidebar panel from
    http://people.netscape.com/granrose/panels/bugzilla/
3)  Go to a secure site in the browser window
4)  Click the "Query Page" link in the sidebar (any link will do, actually)

EXPECTED RESULTS: an alert telling you that you are leaving a secure site (there
is a separate bug on this alert needing a cancel button that will cancel
loading) and then, after OK is clicked the query page is loaded.

ACTUAL RESULTS:
One of two possibilities:
A)  The query page is loaded and _then_ the alert is popped up.
B)  The query page is loaded, there is no alert at all, and the lock icon is
    shown red and broken

I have not yet figured out what determines whether A or B occurs.

OTHER INFORMATION:
The sidebar panel has links like the following:
<a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi" target="_content">Query Page</a>

This is a problem with PSM 1.x and PSM 2.0 both.

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

PSMS 2.0

Comment 2

[John G. Myers]

nsSecureBrowserUI never gets a STATE_TRANSFERRING | STATE_IS_DOCUMENT 
notification from the docloader.  This is a docloader bug.  Changing component.

Comment 3

[Judson Valeski]

-> rpotts

Comment 4

[Chak Nanga]

Tested with the latest bits and seems to be working fine.

The security alert comes up first, i choose OK and only then does the bugzilla 
query page is loaded.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme as well, 2001-06-10-21 Linux build.  Verifying.