Sorry for the wide post, not sure which of these newsgroups this really
falls under...
We have a Flash application that runs with the Flash 5.0r47 plugin and
mozilla 0.9.4 on Linux. In this application, we have a button with the
following actionscript attached to it:
on(release) {
getURL ("javascript:getApp();")
}
Normally, this URL works just fine and all goes well. However, if the
"browser.target_new_blocked" pref is set to true, this button now ceases
to work and the following error appears on stdout:
Error loading URL javascript:getApp(); : 805303f5
The error is NS_ERROR_DOM_RETVAL_UNDEFINED, and the only place in the
source code that it makes sense for this error to be coming from is line
234 of nsJSProtocolHandler.cpp. Supposedly this generates the following
string to the js console: "Attempt to load a javascript: URL from one
host in a window displaying content from another host was blocked by the
security manager." I don't have access to the js console at this point
to see whether this string is really being generated or not (is the
console output logged to some file where I can get it?).
All "windows" are using http://localhost as far as I know, so I don't
understand the error. Also, why should target_new_blocked affect this at
all? The comments in this code imply "the principals aren't equal".
Could the app running in the Flash plug-in have a different principal
than the window which encapsulates it? I know nothing about principals
or how they work. However, when browser.target_new_blocked is returned
to false, all starts working again.
Can anybody give me any pointers as to why this pref is causing this
problem?
TIA,
--Brett Granger
