732928 - When calling navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(), it will fail on timeout if a previous request has been made with a timeout option.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, defect)

Description

[Marcelo]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11

Steps to reproduce:

I implemented a javascript application that periodically calls navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition with a timeout.


Actual results:

For instance, I call navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(callback, erorrCb, {timeout:10000}). Even if either callback or errorCb fires instantly after the request, the next request will fail if I don't wait at least 10000 milliseconds.


Expected results:

The timer within the geolocation implementation in Firefox should have been reset after either the success callback or the error callback had fired and the next request should not have failed.

Comment 1

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

Could you attach a testcase to this bug, or link to one somewhere? Timeouts are implemented per-request, so it's curious that the bug described should be manifesting. Furthermore, which version of Firefox are you seeing this behaviour in?

Comment 2

[Marcelo]

Attachment: getCurrentPosition is called with timeout set; successCallback is fired instantly; then, after a few seconds (less than the timeout of the first request) getCurrentPosition is called again but fails

This attachment shows that, calling getCurrentPosition twice with a timeout set, the second request will fail after the timeout, even if the first request had fired one of the callbacks instantly.

Comment 3

[Marcelo]

I've added a test case with some console.log calls. I've tested it on Firefox 3.6.27 (which is the version that my application currently supports) and on Firefox Portable 10.0.2. Same behavior in both versions.

Comment 4

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

Would you be able to download a nightly version of Firefox (http://nightly.mozilla.org/) and see if you can reproduce this behaviour? I am having trouble replicating your results with Firefox 14.

Comment 5

[Hanno Schlichting]

This couldn't be reproduced and no new information given by original reporter.