815068 - Since upgrading to v17.0 Wiki on a stick says : WoaS: Unable to save file

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[linuxpete]

Attachment: woas-0.12.zip

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121119183901

Steps to reproduce:

Upgrading FF 16.1 to 17.0


Actual results:

Wiki on a Stick returns after trying to save the HTML file with the error : 

WoaS: Unable to save file '\\rs.root.nedtrain.nl\UserData\HomeB3\u862292\Laptop\wikipieter.html'.

Your browser might not be supported, please report a bug with your UserAgent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0

Trying to open a new instance of wiki on a stick renders following error : 

WoaS Unhandled error
----
Save failure during integrity test
D:\woas-0.12.0\




Expected results:

Wiki on a stick should have been saved as it did the last 5 years or so.

Attached the original wiki on a stick files 

wiki on a stick website : http://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/

OS : win XP SP3

Comment 1

[linuxpete]

Tiddly wiki also suffers from this upgrade ?? 

Very annoying.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Are there errors in the Firefox error console (ctrl+shift+j) ?
There are 2 things that could cause this:
a) We changed the UA format 
b) We removed the "enablePrivilege" feature e.g. netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalXPConnect');

Comment 3

[linuxpete]

Attachment: screenshot of error console after trying to save Wiki on a stick

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You should see the error while loading "wiki on a stick"

According to this thread they use enablePrivilege
http://woas.iragan.com/viewtopic.php?id=994

Comment 5

[linuxpete]

This is from my prefs.js as described in the thread you mentioned.

As far as I can all is in place, as described.

user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.woas0.granted", "UniversalXPConnect");
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.woas0.id", "file://///rs.root.nedtrain.nl/UserData/HomeB3/u862292/Laptop/wikipieter%20(u862292%20v1).html");
user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.woas0.subjectName", "");

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This prefs doesn't help because that feature got removed from Firefox17.

Comment 7

[linuxpete]

Great, and what to do next? Work around now is downgrading to Firefox15 ?

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Sorry but I can't give you an answer. A portable version of Firefox15 on the stick just for editing the wiki could be a solution.

I'm going to mark this report wontfix
It's not my decision to remove the enablePrivilege -> Don't Kill the Messenger

Comment 9

[fred]

Ehm, I won't shoot anybody, but is there any way to influence/change this decision? I use WoaS as my homepage/bookmark solution and that's sort of broken now.

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The decision to remove this feature was discussed before it got removed.
It got removed with bug 546848.

Note: I didn't decide that and I don't have any influence in that decision.

Comment 11

[Jan Pihlgren]

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start WoaS, open a page
2. Do some editing in the page
3. Save the page

Errormessages:
WoaS: Unable to save the '/home/jan/Dokument/woas-0.12.0/woas-fix.html' file.

Your browser might not be supported. Please report a bug with your UserAgent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0

Comment 12

[A.Angelo]

Hi all!
I just get the same error.

Environment:
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64
browser: Firefox 39.0
WoaS: woas-0.12.0

1. Open woas_fix.html
2. Create a new page, with some text
3. Save the page
gives the error message:
-----------
WoaS: Unable to save the 'F:\sw\woas-0.12.0\woas-fix.html' file.

Your browser might not be supported. Please report a bug with your UserAgent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
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4. Refresh browser page: the new page does not exists.