status update

maintained by Tim Rowley <tor@cs.brown.edu>

Last Updated Saturday September 7, 2002

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Module Updates
Necko, Imagelib, XPCOM
August 22
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • Dougt on vacation this week. Gordon on vacation till next week.
  • Darin's effort on the cache work is exposing several bugs with partial cache entries. Some of these will need to be addressed soon -- but Gordon is on vacation till next week.

Highlights

  • darin
    • landed patch from pach@cs.cmu.edu and myself for bug 150604 (trunk) - digest authentication problem: Mozilla ignores the stale flag from WWW-Authenticate Response Header.
    • fixed bug 161417 (trunk) - recent netwerk checkin upped warning count by 4
    • fixed bug 151867 (trunk) - file channel should implement nsIUploadChannel
    • fixed bug 161228 (trunk) - socket transport DNS cache should map host:port->ipaddress instead of host->ipaddress
    • fixed bug 102312 (trunk) - URL: Href attributes spanning multiple lines are taken to be relative rather than absolute links
    • fixed bug 113206 (trunk) - fix default port selection of nsHttpHandler::NewURI
    • fixed bug 162448 (trunk) - Page takes loooong to load with pipelining enabled [IIS/5.0]
    • fixed bug 158500 (trunk) - Binary data in multipart/x-mixed-replace get an extra line end when saved or viewed.
    • wrote patch for bug 161174 - Hotmail Chinese attachment filename is displayed as question marks on download file dialog
    • landed revised patch for bug 157131 (trunk) - cleanup nsIIOService in preparation for freezing
    • attended forms security review on Wednesday.
    • tested out a potential cookie stealing exploit.
    • worked on NTLM patch.
    • reviewed patches
    • triaged bugs
  • neeti
  • gagan
    • coordinated the snap overview meeting

Lowlights

  • gagan
    • No status from Pavlov yet again.

Plans for next week

  • darin
    • take monday off :-)
    • focus on getting a working NTLM implementation
  • gagan
    • Take Monday and Tuesday off.

Issues

Calendar
August 28
Submitted by Mike Potter <mikep@oeone.com>

Ernie Cline helped get calendar working on Mac OS X 10.2. This is untested, so there may be small installation problems.

Mostafa added in support for multiple calendar files.

Work progressed quickly after that and support for remote calendar files was added. The files are downloaded and then added as a server, allowing you to view the events. (You can't add / edit or delete them yet). This allows you to subscribe to remote calendars, and see the events of other people. The code for publishing this calendar back to a server is there, but UI work needs to be done.

A list of bugs that were fixed: 163295, 164127, 158510, 157269, 160378, 164286, 164287, 164497, 164370, 164598, 164838, 164436, 164435, 164346. A lot of those bugs were small issues that were added with remote calendars.

Highlights of those bugs: Multiple selection for deleting both tasks and events. Also, deleting multiple events is now faster since it doesn't refresh the views until after it deletes all the events.

Tooltips were also fixed for events and tasks.

The plan for the next little while is to focus more on fixing the bugs in the product, then try to speed things up, since calendar is still pretty slow.

Necko, Imagelib, XPCOM
September 4
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • Great progress on Snap work-- Prefetching patch landed! Works well. Good job Darin!
  • Bugfixes and triaging work continues.

Highlights

  • darin
    • landed patch for bug 152697 (trunk) - no limit on the size of a HTTP header
    • landed patch for bug 162589 (trunk) - use white-list for HTTP referrer blocking instead of black-list.
    • landed patch for bug 163841 (trunk) - deadlock when disk cache fills up
    • revised URL prefetching patch, bug 12274
    • reviewed patches
    • triaged bugs
  • dougt
    • Back from vacation. Around 1000 mails, mostly spam.
    • FTP Ownership is back with me.
    • Fixed problem in the FTP code pointed out by an Client embedder.
    • Fixed the NS_InitEmbedding unconditionally calls to AutoRegister.
    • Removed last direct user of component.reg.
    • Reviewing tons of code. (please keep alecf off of planes. :-) )
    • Landed a new FTP LIST parser contributed by Cyrus Patel. This fixes many bugs in FTP.
    • Participated in XPCOM API review.
    • Almost finished on the nsITimer changes.
  • neeti

Lowlights

  • gagan
    • No status from Gordon and Pavlov this week.

Plans for next week

  • darin
    • land URL prefetching patch :)

Issues

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