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How can I disable XULRunner/firefox Embedded Browser offline mode [message #505793] Tue, 05 January 2010 03:40 Go to next message
Ryan  is currently offline Ryan Friend
Messages: 3
Registered: September 2009
Junior Member
Hi,

I have an SWT app which uses an embedded browser to browse a webapp running on localhost. I get an issue when there is no active network connection and XULRunner switches to offline mode and comes up with an error saying to turn offline mode off.

I am running windows and can only find references to linux Network Manager on searches which doesn't help.

I found a firefox extension that would do the trick, but I don't know if it can be installed with XULRunner?

Is there another way I can disable offline mode? Any help would be appreciated. I'm contemplating just installing a dummy network adapter in windows to trick it, but that isn't very good for distribution Smile.

Running Windows
Tried XULRunner 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 series and firefox 3.6 beta.

Many Thanks,

Ryan
Re: How can I disable XULRunner/firefox Embedded Browser offline mode [message #505947 is a reply to message #505793] Tue, 05 January 2010 15:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Grant Gayed is currently offline Grant GayedFriend
Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
Hi Ryan,

I tried following a SWT.MOZILLA Browser link after unplugging my network
connection and just got a "...could not reach url..." error message, so I
don't have a test case that matches yours. However I found some info that
could be relevant, if you can give it a try.

Starting from: http://www.advogato.org/article/1014.html
And then seeing:
http://www.oxymoronical.com/experiments/apidocs/interface/ns IIOService2

I put together the snippet below which at least sounds like it could fix
your case. It requires that you use JavaXPCOM, which is explained in
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#howusejavaxpcom . Also note that if this
does not quite solve your case, nsIIOService provides method
"setOffline(boolean)", which could be helpful.

import org.eclipse.swt.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.browser.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;
import org.mozilla.interfaces.*;
import org.mozilla.xpcom.Mozilla;

public class ModifiedSnippet267 {
static Browser browser;
public static void main (String [] args) {
Display display = new Display();
Shell shell = new Shell(display);
shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
try {
browser = new Browser(shell, SWT.MOZILLA);
} catch (SWTError e) {
System.out.println("Could not instantiate Browser: " +
e.getMessage());
display.dispose();
return;
}
browser.setUrl("http://www.google.com");
shell.setBounds(10,10,400,400);
shell.open();

// start JavaXPCOM section
nsIIOService ioService =
(nsIIOService)Mozilla.getInstance().getServiceManager().getS erviceByContract
ID("@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1", nsIIOService.NS_IIOSERVICE_IID);
nsIIOService2 ioService2 =
(nsIIOService2)ioService.queryInterface(nsIIOService2.NS_IIO SERVICE2_IID);
ioService2.setManageOfflineStatus(false);
// end JavaXPCOM section

while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep();
}
display.dispose();
}
}

I'd be interested to know if this fixes your case, please follow up if you
have any problems.

Grant


"Ryan" <ryan_swt@itheroes.com.au> wrote in message
news:hhucce$3pm$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> I have an SWT app which uses an embedded browser to browse a webapp
running on localhost. I get an issue when there is no active network
connection and XULRunner switches to offline mode and comes up with an error
saying to turn offline mode off.
>
> I am running windows and can only find references to linux Network Manager
on searches which doesn't help.
>
> I found a firefox extension that would do the trick, but I don't know if
it can be installed with XULRunner?
>
> Is there another way I can disable offline mode? Any help would be
appreciated. I'm contemplating just installing a dummy network adapter in
windows to trick it, but that isn't very good for distribution :).
>
> Running Windows
> Tried XULRunner 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 series and firefox 3.6 beta.
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
Re: How can I disable XULRunner/firefox Embedded Browser offline mode [message #506073 is a reply to message #505793] Wed, 06 January 2010 01:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: jccanova.gmail.com

Hi,

I hope i can help you.

There is a option on configuration (about:config) that control the online
offline mode.

"browser.offline" True: Attempt to retrieve pages from cache.
False (default): Assume a connection is present and retrieve resources where
necessary.

Probably this is being turned on/off by the browser (this i still dont know
how).

You can manage this property directly from XulRunner in a mozilla browser
(SWT.Mozilla)

Retrieving first the serviceManager, then the propertiesService... get the
Branch. use a empty branch.... then alter the value always to true...


here is a snippet in this case i was testing the proxy config....

Mozilla mozilla = Mozilla.getInstance();
nsIServiceManager serviceManager = mozilla.getServiceManager();
nsIComponentManager componentManager = mozilla.getComponentManager();
nsIWebBrowser thisBrowser = (nsIWebBrowser)
thisClass.proxyBrowser.getWebBrowser();
nsIPrefService preferencesService = (nsIPrefService)
serviceManager.getServiceByContractID("@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1 " ,
"decb9cc7-c08f-4ea5-be91-a8fc637ce2d2");// nsIPrefService
nsIPrefBranch prefs = preferencesService.getDefaultBranch("");
String root = prefs.getRoot();
try {
HttpProxy.main(new String[]{"c:/temp"});
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
if (prefs.getPrefType("network.proxy.http") !=0 &&
prefs.getPrefType("network.proxy.http_port") !=0) {
prefs.setIntPref("network.proxy.type", 1);
prefs.unlockPref("network.proxy.http");
prefs.setCharPref("network.proxy.http", "127.0.0.1");
prefs.unlockPref("network.proxy.http_port");
prefs.setIntPref("network.proxy.http_port",8083 );
}
if (prefs.getPrefType("network.http.accept.default")!=0){
prefs.unlockPref("network.http.accept.default");
System.err.println(prefs.getCharPref("network.http.accept.default "));
}

In your case you gona use the "browser.offline" property...

Regards,


"Ryan" <ryan_swt@itheroes.com.au> wrote in message
news:hhucce$3pm$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> I have an SWT app which uses an embedded browser to browse a webapp
> running on localhost. I get an issue when there is no active network
> connection and XULRunner switches to offline mode and comes up with an
> error saying to turn offline mode off.
>
> I am running windows and can only find references to linux Network Manager
> on searches which doesn't help.
>
> I found a firefox extension that would do the trick, but I don't know if
> it can be installed with XULRunner?
>
> Is there another way I can disable offline mode? Any help would be
> appreciated. I'm contemplating just installing a dummy network adapter in
> windows to trick it, but that isn't very good for distribution :).
>
> Running Windows
> Tried XULRunner 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 series and firefox 3.6 beta.
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
[Solved] Re: How can I disable XULRunner/firefox Embedded Browser offline mode [message #506085 is a reply to message #505947] Wed, 06 January 2010 03:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ryan  is currently offline Ryan Friend
Messages: 3
Registered: September 2009
Junior Member
Thanks very much,

The nsIIOService2 did the trick.

I also had to set

ioService2.setOffline(false);

otherwise if the application started without a network connection it was in offline mode. But this was easy to find because it is in the documentation for nsIIOService2.

Regarding the browser.offline property. I have tried that one when using firefox and it didn't make any difference. I'm not sure what it is meant to do.

Many thanks,

Ryan
Re: [Solved] Re: How can I disable XULRunner/firefox Embedded Browser offline mode [message #506491 is a reply to message #506085] Thu, 07 January 2010 17:06 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: jccanova.gmail.com

Tks to you,

no i understood how i can manage NetworkServices in XullRunner :)


"Ryan" <ryan_swt@itheroes.com.au> wrote in message
news:hi0ung$1m5$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Thanks very much,
>
> The nsIIOService2 did the trick.
>
> I also had to set
>
> ioService2.setOffline(false);
>
> otherwise if the application started without a network connection it was
> in offline mode. But this was easy to find because it is in the
> documentation for nsIIOService2.
>
> Regarding the browser.offline property. I have tried that one when using
> firefox and it didn't make any difference. I'm not sure what it is meant
> to do.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ryan
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