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Bug 114326

Summary: Web Services Explorer won't launch on Firefox in Linux
Product: [WebTools] WTP Webservices Reporter: Tim deBoer <deboer>
Component: wst.wsAssignee: Mark Hutchinson <mahutch>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 Keywords: Documentation
Version: 1.0   
Target Milestone: 1.5 M6   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tim deBoer CLA 2005-10-30 21:58:04 EST 
A tester on my team is trying to launch the Web Services Explorer on Linux.
Firefox is configured to be their default system browser (if they set the Web
Browser preferences specifically to Firefox, the same behaviour occurs), but
when they launch the explorer it appears with the following in the titlebar:

   http://localhost:de/
Comment 1 Gilbert Andrews CLA 2006-02-22 23:58:33 EST 
I dont think there has any testing on this. I am not sure why this is occurring. I will have to look into this, hopefully there wont be any problems after the launch part is taken care of. 

To date we have been testing on Mozilla in Linux. Its hard to tell what work will be required with this.
Comment 2 Chris Brealey CLA 2006-02-27 15:36:58 EST 
Tim,
there are a couple ways to launch the Web Services Explorer - from the Wizards, or from the main "Run" menu, or by right-clicking on a WSDL file. How are you launching the thing? Also, have you tried launching any other type of browser from Linux? Finally, please be aware that we have not function tested the Web Services Explorer on Firefox, so there is more testing and possible development behind this bug than just fixing a bad launch URL.

Gil,
I tried launching the WSE into Firefox on Windows and gave it a cursory test. It launched normally, and mostly worked [1].

[1] The WSE in Firefox appears unable to deserialize the SOAP Request Envelope from XML (source) to form mode:

XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
Location: http://localhost:56372/wsexplorer/wsdl/soap_envelope_xml.jsp?soapEnvelopeType=0
Line Number 6, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
^
Comment 3 Tim deBoer CLA 2006-03-06 16:09:15 EST 
This was originally opened by an internal user. I've checked with them, and after testing on another machine they now beleive that this was a etc/hosts problem. On the new machine (or after adding "127.0.0.1  localhost"), it is working correctly. Does this make sense, and is localhost configuration a requirement or should it be resolving this correctly?
Comment 4 Mark Hutchinson CLA 2006-05-08 12:32:39 EDT 
The Web Service Explorer opens fine for me in firefox on linux.

I commented out the "127.0.0.1  localhost" line in my /etc/hosts file and got similar behaviour.  The browser can not resolve localhost if the that entry is not in the /etc/hosts.  I would think that line should be in the hosts file by default.

I have seen the issue Chris footnoted there and opened bug 140607 for it.
Comment 5 Tim deBoer CLA 2006-05-18 17:28:29 EDT 
Closing.