74987 - Specifying an invalid URL using OpenURL via x-remote should display error message.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, defect)

Description

[Stan Carney]

When using x-remote to open a URL, specifiying an invalid url will not return
any information that the url has failed load.

Example:
With a running Mozilla window, run the following:

./x-remote -d :0 -remote "openurl(www.sun.coo)"

This will not display the "Unable to locate site www.sun.coo" message like it
should. This is how it functioned in Netscape 4.*.

As an enhancement I think you should be able to turn this feature off to make it
act like it does currently.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

over to netwroking.  cc'ing blizzard in case he's interested.

Comment 2

[robbe]

(I'm testing with mozilla's -remote option instead of "x-remote", which I don't
have.)

Actually, openURL(FOO) will do nothing in any case, regardless of FOO being
valid or not. openURL(FOO,new-window) works, and displays the not-found dialog
when FOO is something like "www.sun.coo".

So I think this is really a dupe of 41527.

Comment 3

[Stan Carney]

What build are you testing on? I will retest tomorrow with 0.9 and the latest 
nightly build but as of 0.8 this bug was valid. Specifying 'openURL
(www.sun.com)' would load a the URL in the current window and specifying an 
invalid window would do nothing 'openURL(www.sun.com)'.

Like I said I will retest on May 22nd and post here.

Comment 4

[robbe]

You are right, I can reproduce this problem on an Apr 2 build. But newer ones
can't be tested reliably - we have to wait on the resolution of bug 41527 for that.

(Does that make 41527 a dependency? I don't think so.)

Note that openURL(www.sun.coo,new-window) will bring up a new window and an
error dialog (i.e. behaves as expected) on the Apr 2 build, and on a build from
yesterday.

Comment 5

[benc]

mass move, v2.
qa to me.

Comment 6

[robbe]

Bug 41527 is fixed now, so this one is testable again. Not magically gone,
though.

IOW,
  mozilla -remote 'openURL(http://host.invalid/)'
is still ignored without any errors, while
  mozilla -remote 'openURL(http://mozilla.org/)'
works.

(On today's branch build)

Comment 7

[benc]

Can someone give me more background on what is going on here?

Comment 8

[Aleksey Nogin]

Just tried it in Mozilla-0.9.7 (ftp.mozilla.org rh7 binary RPMs) on RedHat Linux
7.2 and I did get the correct error message.

Comment 9

[benc]

-> x-remote