Bug 479952 - Opening broken URL raises empty error-dialog
Summary: Opening broken URL raises empty error-dialog
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: thunderbird
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Aillon
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-14 09:30 UTC by Ralf Corsepius
Modified: 2018-04-11 14:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-12-18 07:36:10 UTC
Type: ---
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screenshot of the "empty dialog" (6.54 KB, image/png)
2009-01-14 09:32 UTC, Ralf Corsepius
no flags Details

Description Ralf Corsepius 2009-01-14 09:30:51 UTC
Description of problem:

When opening a broken URL contained inside of a mail, thunderbird raises an empty gtk/gnome error-dialog.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
Deterministic

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive a mail containing a URL pointing to an invalid location.
2. Click onto this URL.

Actual results:
An empty gtk/gnome dialog pops up (often in the background, often behind thunderbird's main window).

Expected results:
A proper error dialog in the foreground

Additional info:
* When I encountered this bug for the first time, I had difficulties to find the application being responsible for launching the "empty dialog".

* The fact the dialog often happens to popup behind open windows is quite annoying. I've met situations, where this dialog had been launched several times, without me immediately noticing it. Instead I found a pile of theses, hours later ;)

Comment 1 Ralf Corsepius 2009-01-14 09:32:29 UTC
Created attachment 328962 [details]
screenshot of the "empty dialog"

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2009-01-15 15:26:28 UTC
Strange --- when clicking on the URL http://www.blbost.kravina in Thunderbird, Firefox got launched and ended with the error message. No dialog was opened for me. Any extensions for Thunderbird, which may cause it? Could you reproduce in -safe-mode?

Comment 3 Ralf Corsepius 2009-01-15 15:59:31 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Strange --- when clicking on the URL http://www.blbost.kravina in Thunderbird,
> Firefox got launched and ended with the error message.
I get an "Address not found" page in firefox.

> No dialog was opened for
> me. Any extensions for Thunderbird, which may cause it?
None that I am aware about.

> Could you reproduce in -safe-mode?
Yes.

The source code of the email exposing the behavior is this:
> > > >=20
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Font_package_namin=
g_%
> > > > 282008-12-22%29
> > > >=20

I am going to forward the original mail to you on PM.
(It's not confidential, nevertheless it has not been intended for the public)

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2009-01-15 22:29:54 UTC
Can fully reproduce just with mail generated by this command

echo 'https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Font_package_namin_%' \
    | mail -s test <my-email-address>

apparently the percent sign in the end of the line is the key.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 10:45:02 UTC
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 07:36:10 UTC
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