PluginAppletViewer.showDocument broken?

[Thomas Meyer]

Am Freitag, den 22.03.2013, 14:59 +0100 schrieb Thomas Meyer:

> Hello.
> 
> Just to inform you and the google search engine what I found out:
> 
> Using IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.3.1
> (fedora-3.fc18-x86_64)):
> 
> Firefox 18.0.2 works correctly - 
> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/18.0.2/linux-x86_64/de/firefox-18.0.2.tar.bz2
> 
> Firefox 19.0.2 fails to connect to the Juniper SSLVPN release [7.1.0] -
> build number [20169] build comment [R6]
> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/19.0.2/linux-x86_64/de/firefox-19.0.2.tar.bz2
> 
> So either firefox broke something or the juniper software with seems to
> use a lot of javascript foo, is not compatible with the new firefox
> version...

I bisected the problem to this commit in the firefox source code:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854890
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799875

So the breakage happened in firefox.

> kind regards
> thomas
> 
> > I'm not able to reproduce this issue.
> > The new document opened both with "_top" directive and without.
> > 
> > If you will be able to prepare some minimalistic reproducer it will be appreciated, otherwise maybe your browser can be broken?
> > Or some selinux policy? Or whatever can block new window. Browsers are becoming to dont like java so maybe browser update and not icedtea-web's one could break your app.
> > /me moreover just cooking from water
> > 
> > 
> > J.
> > 
> > On 03/13/2013 02:10 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
> > > On 03/13/2013 05:18 AM, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> there seems to be another regression in the current tip.
> > >>
> > >> For remote log on to my employers site I use the the
> > >> SecureHCLauncherApplet.
> > >>
> > >> this applet has a the init() and start() method overwritten.
> > >>
> > >> the last thing that is executed in the start() method is a
> > >> PluginAppletViewer.showDocument().
> > >>
> > >> stack trace is:
> > >> Thread [NetxPanelThread at https://employer.com/blabla] (Ausgesetzt) (nicht synchron)
> > >> PluginAppletViewer.showDocument(URL, String) Zeile: 921 (nicht synchron)
> > >> SecureHCLauncher.onFinishedLoadingWithAction(String) Zeile: 388
> > >> SecureHCLauncher.onFinishedLoading() Zeile: 369 [lokale Variablen nicht verfügbar]
> > >> SecureHCLauncher.doInstall() Zeile: 266
> > >> SecureHCLauncher(SecureLauncherApplet).start() Zeile: 223
> > >> SecureHCLauncher.start() Zeile: 205
> > >> NetxPanel(AppletPanel).run() Zeile: 476
> > >> Thread.run() Zeile: 722
> > >>
> > >> The log also has this info:
> > >> WRITING 2: instance 9 reference 187 LoadURL https://successful-auth-site.com _top
> > >> PIPE: appletviewer wrote: instance 9 reference 187 LoadURL https://successful-auth-site.com _top
> > >> WRITING 2 DONE
> > >> PIPE: appletviewer read: instance 9 destroy
> > >> Waiting for data...
> > >>
> > >> The problem is, that the URL request to show in the current browser window ( == "_top") is never loaded/shown in the browser!
> > >>
> > >> This used to work for some months ago. I didn't try to login remotely for a while to this site...
> > >>
> > >> ideas are welcome!
> > >>
> > >> with kind regards
> > >> thomas
> > >>
> > >
> > > Hi! Taking it to distro-list.
> > > Have you tried with older versions of icedtea-web on the same website ?
> > > I will look into it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Adam
> > 
>