This bug is an evil Firefox 1.0 blocker. I can't figure out what's going on in the source code (nsDownloadManager.cpp, possibly nsExternalAppHandlerService.cpp) well enough to start working on a patch.
helpwanted: I don't know yet if this is a Windows-only bug or if it affects other platforms. I also don't know where in the code this is taking a turn for the worse. I need help determining these issues, so that a patch can be developed.
In this case, the bug is blocking me from releasing another nice little feature for this blog.
Please don't comment to this blog entry about whatever you discover. File your comments in the bug.
The "Featured Bug for Research" column is a new one for this blog, basically asking people to help me out on bugs that interest me and are not necessarily trivial to figure out. I'll use it primarily for issues where I'm just stuck.
UPDATE: Well, this blog entry got some attention. Within a few hours of me noting it here, a number of developers leaped on it, pointed out the basic flaw in the code, created a patch (porting another patch that already applied to Mozilla trunk), r+sr'd, and checked it in. We're waiting on the patch to finish baking on tbox and grab a nightly to test. Prospects are good.
UPDATE 2: Penalty flag on the kicker, offsides. We're still showing this bug as of a nightly grabbed from Tinderbox, internal timestamp 2004092506.
FINAL UPDATE: Ladies and gentlemen, this bug has been fixed. I apologize for retracting the entry, but due to its security-sensitive status, I felt I had to retract it momentarily.
Posted by WeirdAl at September 24, 2004 3:03 PMMmmm, data:
Posted by: Eric Hodel at September 27, 2004 12:39 PM