Closed
Bug 252410
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Wrong referrer with "Load URLs typed into the address bar in new tabs"
Categories
(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: jericho+mozilla, Assigned: bugs)
Details
User-Agent: Firefox/0.9.2 (Windoze XP; U) [en] Build Identifier: Firefox/0.9.2 (Windows XP; U) [en] "Load URLs typed into the address bar in new tabs" is selected (not sure if this is part of Tabbrowser Preferences 0.6.5 extension or native to Firefox. When I type in a new URL, it will load the page in a new tab as expected. However, the remote web will receive the href as URL of the previous tab, regardless of their relation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. load www.one.com into tab 2. type www.two.com into address bar 3. check web log of site two.com and notice href of hit shows one.com as referrer Actual Results: forced ~# tail -f /home/admin/access_log | grep spleh 216.38.219.236 - - [21/Jul/2004:04:50:49 -0400] "GET /spleh HTTP/1.1" 404 1932 "http://arbitrary.net/" "Firefox/0.9.2 (Windoze XP; U) [en]" Notice that "arbitrary.net" shows in the HREF field here, even though that site (changed for this report) does not link to the site with this log. it is inhereting the href from the previous tab in firefox that i was looking at. Expected Results: if i manually type a URL into the address bar, it should show no href, just a direct page load. forced ~# tail -f /home/admin/access_log | grep spleh 216.38.219.236 - - [21/Jul/2004:05:10:43 -0400] "GET /spleh HTTP/1.1" 404 1906 "-" "Opera/6.03 (Windows 2000; U) [en]" I flagged this as 'security' related because in some instances, there is a chance a user may disclose sensitive information from one tab to a remote site without realizing it. If the URL/HREF carries any sensitive information such as session ID, login names, private web space, etc... it would be disclosed to the remote site.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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"Load URLs typed into the address bar in new tabs" is a TBE option, not a Firefox option. This is probably a TBE bug. Do you know how to report bugs in TBE?
Summary: url typed in addressbar provides incorrect href to remote web site → Wrong referrer with "Load URLs typed into the address bar in new tabs"
Comment 2•20 years ago
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The reporter is going to tell the author of Tabbrowser Preferences (not TBE, my mistake) about this bug. I'm marking this bug INVALID but leaving it security-sensitive so the extension author has a chance to fix it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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