214999 - No policy shows up when you view the cookies

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect, P2)

Description

[cool_otter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030803 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030803 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

When I veiw the cookies (Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies > View Cookies),
and I select a cookie it displays information (such as name, content, domain,
etc.). However, a policy doesn't show up on any of the cookies. It just says
"Policy:" I can see the policy elsewhere, but if I look at the same cookie here
it doesn't say anything! 

This seems to have used to work with an older version, now I'm using the latest
nightly build. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies and select "Enable Cookies" and
also select "From the originating web site only"
2.Go to a bunch of websites that you know put cookies that have a policy into
your computer. 
3.Now click on Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies > 
4.Select a cookie. Look at the information about it, and look at the place where
it says "Policy:" 

Actual Results:  
Nothing appeared next to where it said "Policy:", even on cookies that do have a
policy. 

Expected Results:  
On cookies that have a policy it should display "Policy: [Policy of cookie here]"

Comment 1

[cool_otter]

I'm not sure if this should go in general or preferences, I think it's most
likely peferences though. 

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Can you give some sites that should have a policy on their cookies?

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

WFM with my own 20030815 build on W2K.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Attachment: wfm

Works for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b)
Gecko/20030827 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+

Comment 5

[Steffen Wilberg]

There are
- cookies with "Policy: no policy about storing identifiable information".
  Example: bugzilla.mozilla.org, cookie name BUGLIST.
- cookies with "Policy: stores identifiable information unless user opts out".
  Example: microsoft.com, cookie name MC1.
- cookies where the policy field is blank.
  Example: bugzilla.mozilla.org, cookie name Bugzilla_login.

The last one is the problem.
I can reproduce this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827.

Confirming and moving to Browser/cookies.

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

is firebird maybe not building P3P?

Comment 7

[Steffen Wilberg]

I have no idea what p3p is about. Firebird builds with
--enable-extensions=[...],p3p,[...]
But as I said, I also see this in SeaMonkey.

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

hmm, we don't build p3p anymore, and we've never had it enabled anyway (i.e.
cookieBehavior has always been 0,1,2) so we haven't been looking at privacy
settings.  I guess we should hide/remove the policy field in FF cookieviewer.

-> back to Firefox/Prefs, I should be able to get this in with other fixes to
FF's cookieviewer.

Comment 9

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Attachment: cookieviewer cruft cleanup

remove all policy UI since we don't build, let alone expose, p3p
removes remaining status cruft (blake got most of it in his first pass)
change former Cookie Manager window title to Stored Cookies to match the button

change Secure Server lingo (port of bug 102269)
remove unused strings in CookieViewer.properties

Comment 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Comment on attachment 146242 [details] [diff] [review]
cookieviewer cruft cleanup

there's more work to be done here, but this is a good start to cleaning this up

Comment 11

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

checked in on trunk 2004-04-18 00:24

will check in on 1.7 branch once policy for Fx checkins on branch is clarified.

Comment 12

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

checked in on 1.7 branch, 2004-04-25 13:11