As some of you might know that Steve Meredith has been working on the fix for 93002. Thanks to Darin Fisher's help of providing a hook in the necko and Doug Turner's suggestion/help of resolving the threading issues, we finally have a fix for the problem: "Mozilla does not trigger Windows' Dial Up Network dialog when there is no network connection on Window NT family." This problem does NOT appear on Windows 95, 98, or ME.
However, as expected, the patch contains a few new files and modification to DNS code. To ensure that we do not introduce any regression and the proposed patch does work, we'd like to invite you to help testing it. As of now, we use a preference, "network.autodial-helper.enabled", to enable/disable the autodial feature (when there is no network connection):
You can udownload builds here, ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2002-07-02-04-trunk/, to test whether the patch introduces any regression on Mac, Lunix, and Windows. For suggestion of how to test, please refer to comment #78, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93002#c78, in the bug report. The current plan is to test the patch with the feature disabled on the trunk first and then check it into branch if no regression is found.746 // Help Windows NT, 2000, and XP dialup a RAS connection 747 // when a network address is unreachable. 748 pref("network.autodial-helper.enabled", false);
For users do use Windows DUN, you can set the pref value, in [install-dir]\defaults\pref\all.js, to 'true' to turn it on. Please follow the instructions in #108, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93002#c108, to conifgure your system to auto-dial properly.
Please enter your finding and your u-a string, "javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent)", into the bug reports so we know which platforms are covered. You can also find the user agent string in the "about:" page (type "about:" in the URL location bar).
Thanks a million for helping out!
-Tao
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| Subject: | [Bug 93002] [distribution]Conn: Use dialup networking (.DUN) when launching mozilla. |
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| Date: | Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:07:51 -0700 (PDT) |
| From: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| To: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93002
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-07-02 10:07 ------- To comment #78 (things to test,) I would add: click on browser buttons while the dialer is dialing.
