72814 - Download options screen: select http option gives network error

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Grace Bush]

Steps to reproduce:
1. download installer (using build 2001032106)
2. proceed through wizard screens to download options
3. choose 'use http'

actual results: network error when trying to download xpcom.xpi
expected results: all files downloaded

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Well, now *there's* a problem. sweetlou doesn't appear to have an 
equivalent HTTP server the way ftp.netscpae.com and ftp.mozilla.org do, so the 
ftp/http switch doesn't make a lot of sense in that case. Since this is 
designed for our external customers we could mark this WONTFIX and make just 
something internal folks will have to deal with.

Of course that means it's not going to get a lot of testing, until we get 
mozilla.org hosting the downloader.

This also suggests the ftp/http UI should be switchable from the config.ini 
because some folks won't want it for their re-packaged Mozilla.

But if we're getting rid of redirect.ini and replacing it with fall-back URLs 
maybe we could handle the ftp/http silently:
 URL0=ftp://ftp.netscape.com/etc
 URL1=http://ftp.netscape.com/etc
 URL2=ftp://sweetlou/etc

This has a big drawback when some folks may just *know* ftp isn't going to work 
fromt their location. It'd be nice if they didn't have to wait for ftp to fail 
(or worse, sort of work but really suck).

CC'ing folks to gather additional opinions.

Comment 2

[Sean Su]

I was wondering when you were going to try the HTTP button :)

The problem is that there isn't an HTTP server for the daily builds.  The way 
the server would have to be setup is:
 ftp:  ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/windows/32bit/x86/[date]
 http: http://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/windows/32bit/x86/[date]

notice that sweetlou would have to support both ftp:// and http:// with the same 
paths.  I don't know if this is possible on sweetlou.  Adding chofmann to the 
cc: list since it's his wife.

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

No comment on my suggestion that we simply hide the feature as a fallback URL?

Can the UI be easily hidden for folks who ship re-packaged Mozilla from servers 
which don't support http? (or vice versa, don't support ftp?).

Comment 4

[Sean Su]

yes, in the config.ini simply set the following:
  [Dialog Download Options]
  Use Protocol Settings=DISABLED

to show or not show the radio buttons.  You can also set the protocol type which 
is independent of whether or not the buttons are shown.  To change the protocol 
type, set the following:
  [Dialog Download Options]
  Use Protocol=FTP ; or HTTP.  default is FTP if not set.

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Use carbuncle.mcom.com:8080

The feature works, I configured a proxy server to map http: to ftp:, and since
the paths on sweetlou are the same, I can confirm I loaded:

Win32 2001-03-19-04 with it.
I haven't figured out what you guys are supporting w/ Mac. If you want me to
test it, let me know.

Since "ftp proxy" is really "send FTP URLs over HTTP proxy requests" the
returned payload is the same (and works!).

Since HTTP supported for proxy only at this point, you sort of can get out
adding a web server to sweetlou...

Comment 6

[kmurray1115]

dveditz wrote: <<No comment on my suggestion that we simply hide the feature as
a fallback URL?>>

I think it's probably the right thing to do for the commercial build (hide the
UI). Mom and Dad really don't need to see this. However, it's totally
appropriate for the Moz build.

Comment 7

[Samir Gehani]

Kevin,
The UI is in the "Advanced" dialog (which mom and dad may not bother with
anyways, right?).

Comment 8

[kmurray1115]

If it's in "Custom" then you're right. My bad.

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

I think we need to support HTTP URL'd HTTP proxy in commercial because of the
problems I had when I reopened bugscape 39015

HTTP URL's seem, IMO, the best choice for a default proxy selection.

Comment 10

[Sean Su]

marking invalid.  sweetlou does not support http, only ftp.
mozilla.org is already hosting the stub installer too, so we can test http as 
well as ftp.

Comment 11

[Grace Bush]

verify