Comment 135 for bug 233901

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-1.3.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-1.3.1

firefox 1.0.3 seems to allow autoconfig to work,
Autoconfig for firefox is VERY well documented on
http://mit.edu/~firefox/www/maintainers/autoconfig.html
and partialy (for mozilla 1.x) in my doc
http://www.int-evry.fr/s2ia/user/procacci/netscape/en/mozilla-autoconfig-en.html

but I still have lot of problems ... especialy with ldap queries
the getLDAPAttributes functions fails :-(
error popup messages is:
"Error: getLDAPAttributes failed: TypeError:
Components.classes[LDAPURLContractID] has no properties"
Any clues on that (I did removed the --disable-ldap in compile options !)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ask for autoconfig:

$ tail -6 /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/greprefs/all.js
// autoconfig jehan
pref('general.config.obscure_value', 0);
pref('general.config.filename', 'firefox.cfg');

2.
edit the firefox.cfg file

//put everything in a try/catch
try {

//simple lockpref that do work :-), just to check that autoconfig did something
//Privacy & Security
defaultPref("signon.rememberSignons", false);

//Get username, for the ldap querie
 var env_user = getenv("USER");
/* 2) define processLDAPValues() here (because if set after "3)" below it
doesn't work !) processLDAPValues which is eventually called by
getLDAPAttributes() just below,
 check getLDAPAttributes() code from
$MOZILLA_HOME/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js to see the inside call to "user
defined" processLDAPValues
*/
function processLDAPValues (values) {
 if(values) {
      // set the global var with the values returned from the LDAP query
      ldap_values = values;
    var uid = getLDAPValue ( values ,"uid" );
    var cn = getLDAPValue ( values ,"cn" );
    var mail = getLDAPValue ( values ,"mail" );

    }
  }
// 3) Call Ldap servers to get Ldap Attributes (mail & cn) , this will finally
call processLDAPValues , "2)" just above.
  getLDAPAttributes("ldap3.int-evry.fr","ou=people,dc=int-evry,dc=fr","uid=" +
env_user,"uid,cn,mail");

//Debug with popup error messages, that doesn't work anymore :-( !! why ??
var env_mozdebug= getenv("MOZILLA_DEBUG");
if (env_mozdebug) { displayError("NO ERROR , just a test, cn =" + cn); }
// try a simple lockpref for debuugin, that one is never set :-(, code might
crash before that line ?
lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.int-evry.fr/");

// Close the try, and call the catch()
} catch(e) {
  displayError("lockedPref", e);
}

3. start firefox

Actual Results:
in 1.0.3
popup messages is:
"Error: getLDAPAttributes failed: TypeError:
Components.classes[LDAPURLContractID] has no properties"

in 1.0.4 nothing happens :-( , the file seems to start beeing parse as the first
lockpref is set, but not the lastone at the end of the script

Expected Results:
ldap values get retrieved so that I can set aother preferences base on the email
address of the user grabbed from ldap ! that will be more usefull in thunderbird
actually ...

Related recents buzilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222973
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225288
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178685
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272970

source code I suppose ?
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/pref/autoconfig/src/

docs
http://mit.edu/~firefox/www/maintainers/autoconfig.html
http://www.alain.knaff.lu/howto/MozillaCustomization/
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/windows/docs/mozilla-pre-config.html
http://www.int-evry.fr/s2ia/user/procacci/netscape/en/mozilla-autoconfig-en.html