676434 - meta-bug: Remove UI prompts from Necko

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jason Duell]

Jonas asserts that " we can simply remove any code from necko that prompts." (bug 676059 comment 5).   I assume we may want to chop this up into smaller bugs, hence the meta-bug.

So we need a bug to remove prompts fpr "unsafe" redirects (and not follow them).  What other cases are we talking about?  What about when you go back in history to a POST?  Others?  I'm assuming you're not including basic auth :)

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Basic auth should use an error page not a prompt where possible (I'm not sure what we'd want to do about non-page requests), but certainly the prompt should be tab-modal as alerts are today. There's the famous POSTDATA prompt, and I'm not sure about others.

Comment 2

[Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> So we need a bug to remove prompts fpr "unsafe" redirects (and not follow
> them).  What other cases are we talking about?

I think we should aim for removing all prompting from Necko.

> What about when you go back in history to a POST?

This prompt can/should be moved to the history code, for the cases where it can't be prevented. There are existing bugs to change the back/forward behavior such that the POSTDATA prompt will go away and/or be needed less.

> I'm assuming you're not including basic auth :)

If we implement bug 567804 and related bugs, the prompting would get moved from Necko to somewhere more appropriate.

Comment 3

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

stale tracker.. just one open dep