From: Brion Vibber <brion@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:50:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a warning for Firefox 2.0 which rejects XMLHttpRequest to localhost...
X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~54755
X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/%22.%20generer_url_ecrire%28%22sites_tous%22%2C%22%22%29.%20%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd02ae1dffd02b7e6e1e7744cb37d73e698ff351;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git

Add a warning for Firefox 2.0 which rejects XMLHttpRequest to localhost...
Safari unfortunately seems to let you submit but doesn't actually _work_ on localhost. Doesn't throw an exception here, just never sends a response...
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diff --git a/skins/common/ajax.js b/skins/common/ajax.js
index ebc4fd6039..4006559361 100644
--- a/skins/common/ajax.js
+++ b/skins/common/ajax.js
@@ -96,7 +96,14 @@ function sajax_do_call(func_name, args, target) {
 		return false;
 	}
 	
-	x.open(sajax_request_type, uri, true);
+	try {
+		x.open(sajax_request_type, uri, true);
+	} catch (e) {
+		if (window.location.hostname == "localhost") {
+			alert("Your browser blocks XMLHttpRequest to 'localhost', try using a real hostname for development/testing.");
+		}
+		throw e;
+	}
 	if (sajax_request_type == "POST") {
 		x.setRequestHeader("Method", "POST " + uri + " HTTP/1.1");
 		x.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");