[icedtea-web] RFC: Patch to allow recursive calls from NPN_GetURL

[Deepak Bhole]

* Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> [2011-06-13 14:12]:
> On 06/09/2011 11:55 AM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> >* Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>  [2011-05-27 11:53]:
> >>On 05/12/2011 04:47 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>This patch addresses the issue brought up here:
> >>>http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-April/013706.html
> >>>
> >>>Current plugin code does not expect NPN_getURL to make recursive calls
> >>>back to Java. Firefox 4 does just that, causing the browser to hang.
> >>>
> >>>Attached patch wires url load calls to be handled through the standard
> >>>Java ->   JS call code, which can handle recursive calls.
> >>>
> >>>The scope of this patch is contained, and I think it should go into 1.1
> >>>as well.
> >>>
> >>>Thoughts?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Looks good to me. Okay for HEAD and 1.1.
> >>
> >
> >Can I backport this to 1.0 too? Fedora 15 has FF4 and would be affected for
> >this.
> 
> Sounds fine to me. On the other hand, have you thought about

Thanks. Pushed.

> updating Fedora 15 to 1.1?
> 

The original plan was to keep F15 at 1.0 and move to 1.1 in F16. However
I have been re-thinking that plan and I think it might be better to move
F15 to 1.1. I am hoping to have time to look into it next week.

Cheers,
Deepak

> Cheers,
> Omair