GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 43438
False "couldn't find" message the first time trying to visit certain web pages
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
<This is supposedly a known bug, but I can't find it anywhere, and am reporting. If it's a dupe, please let me know so that I can make the existing bug easier to find.> Currently, Nautilus gives an error of 'Can't display "{URL}" because Nautilus cannot handle items of this unknown type.' on many web pages. e.g. go to www.deja.com/usenet, type in a text string, and click Search. If you dismiss the dialog and click "Search" a second time, the page will display correctly. ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-10-03 14:10:04 ---- This message means that gnome-vfs returned NULL for the MIME type for this URI. This seems likely to be a gnome-vfs bug rather than a Mozilla bug. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-03 14:11:19 ---- I neglected to mention that the console doesn't display additional information when this occurs. ------- Additional Comments From ramiro@fateware.com 2000-10-10 07:19:28 ---- marking 1 day assigned. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 20:10:50 ---- Batch-assigning QA ownership of remaining bugs to eli@eazel.com ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-10-17 11:59:03 ---- I tried this again just now, and the symptom has changed. It still doesn't work the first time (using the URL Eli mentioned), but the message you see is different. It now says "Couldn't find "http://www.deja.com/dnquery...[etc]". Please check the spelling and try again." This message results when a GnomeVFS call returns GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NOT_FOUND or GNOME_VFS_ERROR_HOST_NOT_FOUND. ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-10-23 15:20:09 ---- Note that the full URI in question here is "http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=frog&ST=MS&svcclass=dncurrent&DBS=2". The error message truncates it. I changed the title to reflect current behavior. I don't know how to generalize from this one example to the set of web pages that don't work right. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-26 17:37:05 ---- This also occurs using Bugzilla and Google (aka the only other two web sites I've checked). ------- Additional Comments From mikef@praxis.etla.net 2000-10-29 10:38:03 ---- You know, I betcha I know what this is. Darin just fixed the "overescaping" problem for HTTP URI's with "?" and "&" characters *only* for the way these URI's are handed off to other components. When Nautilus tries to get MIME type information on these files, it still happily uses the over-escaped versions, thus returning an error. The real fix to this problem is to convert NautilusFile to storing escaped instead of unescaped URI's. But I'm not sure we can do this for PR2. Maybe we should ship PR2 with this bug and fix the NautilusFile issue for usable/release? Maybe Ramiro or Darin will have a better idea. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-30 21:42:53 ---- This also occurs with the http://www.ifilm.com default bookmark. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-31 12:02:22 ---- ifilm is no longer a default bookmark. ------- Additional Comments From victor@eazel.com 2000-10-31 12:21:43 ---- *** Bug 44150 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2000-10-31 13:18:43 ---- I'm not sure what the status of this bug is. For the last two days we've been aware that this is probably a bug in the shell, not the Mozilla component. And it's a bug that's difficult to fix. I would give it a 3-day estimate. But I can't tell if Ramiro is already working on this or not. ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2000-10-31 14:30:43 ---- I think the problem here is the same as in bug 44305. ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2000-10-31 16:40:46 ---- Here's hoping this takes a short time to verify once 4305 is fixed. ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2000-11-01 11:08:50 ---- My fix to 4305 does indeed fix this too! ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-11-01 14:18:11 ---- Verified fixed. Using a current RPM build, I can no longer reproduce this problem with: * bugzilla.gnome.org * deja.com * google.com ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:41 ------- Bug depends on bug(s) 44305.