localhost not viewable in offline mode

[camerons]

When the network is disconnected, the ​http://localhost url is not found in firefox. In particular ​http://localhost:5000 doesn't find the mapfish application.

To reproduce the problem:

• Turn networking off in a VM (usually bottom right icon on display), or disconnect ethernet cable if running from an iso image, and turn off wireless on the computer.

• type ​http://localhost:5000 into a firefox browser. The mapfish application should come up when this problem is fixed.

• This is a known bug in firefox 3. ​https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339814

=== Manual fix:

• Type about:config as the URL into firefox. Select "I'll be careful"
• You should see a list of config options
• Select "browser.offline-apps.notify" to set it to false.

[wildintellect]

That fix doesn't carry over well between browser sessions. Based on ​http://www.stylesen.org/firefox_3_0_work_offline_mode The fix should be

 toolkit.networkmanager.disable  true

This appears to be the sole purpose of ​https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13152

Tested on original 2.0.1 VM, Can anyone confirm.

[hamish]

attempt for fix-by-script in r2462.

[camerons]

Manual fix confirmed to work in 2.0.2. Once the automated script fix is verified, this issue can be closed.

[camerons]

I was able to verify that this was fixed in arramagong 3.0alpha3 In VMWare Server console: Select: Summary -> Network Adaptor 1 -> Edit -> Disconnect

Then Opened Firefox, ​http://localhost It comes up with message "It works" Then Opened up MapFish, which also worked, (although it has empty tiles for a background)