copy about:support to pastebin menu entry is broken

[whimboo]

When you try the above mentioned command you will get the following entry in the Error Console:

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIWebNavigation.loadURI]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: loadURIWithFlags :: line 156" data: no] Source File: chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml Line: 1358

[xabolcs]

with Firefox 12 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 ID:20120417165043) the new tab would open with THIS API HAS BEEN DISABLED. Please use Pastebin's new API. http://pastebin.com/api "URL" which causes the exception.

But http://pastebin.com/api redirects to the login page. Do we like that (read: login required services)? :( Are there any way to use pastebin.m.o instead?

[whimboo]

For Firefox and SeaMonkey we could use loadURI and simply submit the data via the postData parameter: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/base/content/browser.js#2142

But not sure if that would work in Thunderbird.

Would you mind posting a link to our current source?

[xabolcs]

Related Pastebin.com tweet is below:

Today we disabled Pastebin's old API. Right now only the new API works. Please adjust your apps/tools if you haven't already.

whimboo wrote:

Would you mind posting a link to our current source?

pastebin() is at nightly.js#L229. It operates with xhr. Could be easily tested with Error Console - copy body of pastebin() and let go. :)

[whimboo]

I would say lets try it out with our own pastebin version at mozilla.org.

[xabolcs]

Sad news from google about pastebin.m.o: Bug 610766 is RESOLVED WORKFORME.

But at least it provides alternatives: https://github.com/bartTC/django-paste, https://github.com/oremj/pastebinit/

[xabolcs]

dpaste.de / dpaste.com works with the new FormData() introduced in Gecko 2.0. So I hope new MultipartFormData()could do the trick too. :)

I'm wondering that multipartFormData.js from screenshot directory should be a shared module. Hm? Updated nightly.pastebin() will use it too!

[xabolcs]

Good news: I'm able to send to pastebin.m.o with XHR (as nightly.pastebin() does) and new MultipartFormData(). Bad news: pastebin.m.o doesn't like current implementation of MultipartFormData and delays the response with 60 seconds!

A request with FormData:

    Fd is instance of MultipartFormData: false
    Fd is instance of FormData: true
    Xhr sent to http://pastebin.mozilla.org/
    Xhr changed state to 2 in 870ms
    Xhr changed state to 3 in 870ms
    Xhr changed state to 3 in 876ms
    Xhr changed state to 3 in 876ms
    Xhr changed state to 3 in 879ms
    http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1746450
    Xhr done in 879ms

A request with NTT's own MultipartFormData:

    Fd is instance of MultipartFormData: true
    Fd is instance of FormData: false
    Xhr sent to http://pastebin.mozilla.org/
    Xhr changed state to 2 in 61012ms
    Xhr changed state to 3 in 61012ms
    Xhr changed state to 3 in 61012ms
    Xhr changed state to 3 in 61015ms
    http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1746451
    Xhr done in 61015ms

Hey pastebin, wtf R U doin?

I'm going to dig into this, and try to improve MultipartFormData. I wouldn't like drop it due to compatibility reasons.

[xabolcs]

Interestingly MultipartFormData works flawlessly with pastebin.m.o under Gecko 1.9.x Other trivial XHR implemetations are slowed down too (under recent Applications). A workaround is for example to create the <form/> element and submitting that. But that doesn't work well with Thunderbird.

So I used FormData where possible, and falled back to MultipartFormData otherwise. The fallback case could be improved if MultipartFormData got modularized or reverted back to Component.

[qguv]

I'm experiencing the same issue @xabolcs got 2 years ago: THIS API HAS BEEN DISABLED. Please use Pastebin's new API. http://pastebin.com/api

[xabolcs]

@qguv if you are interested, you could try the xpi from development channel! It have a fix, which uses pastebin.mozilla.org instead pastebin.com.

[Endor8]

Since the pastebin issue is apparently well know since 2012 it would be good if someone fix it finally. Thanks

[whimboo]

Yes, it bugs us for a while now. Lets try to get this fixed for the next 3.9 release.

[whimboo]

I think the patch is close to be ready to land. @xabolcs do you agree? Would be great to see it in the 3.9 release.

[xabolcs]

I do agree! I will have some minor questions in the PR.

[whimboo]

@xabolcs quick ping. Do you think you will have the time to work on this issue? If not we might want to get this pushed out to a later release so that we can finally get out 3.9. Thanks.

[whimboo]

It looks like that @xabolcs is not around those days. I will move out this issue to 3.10 then.

[whimboo]

We don't have the pastebin feature anymore in the rewrite of the extension and would have to find a new way of doing so.

[xabolcs]

Follow up issue is #251.