107502 - Page Info Security tab should display informative information for local directory listings

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect, P3)

Description

[u32858]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010914
BuildID:    2001092020

Hello
Click on that nice icon at the bottom right and a window pops up
when browsing eg  file:///usr/local

Title:
URL:           undefined
Last Modified: Unknown

Now wouldnt it more more useful if the Title could be set to file:///usr/local  ??
Also the top application window bar just says Mozilla, no document title.

"Last Modified: 20 Oct 2001" would be nicer as well, if that was the date on the
directory I am browsing now.

On the security tab the "view" button does nothing, if this displayed a message
like "currently browsing local drives, no security infomation" that would be
more useful.

Anyway, the rest of the product is great, keep it going guys!



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.type url
2.look at screen
3.

Actual Results:  Nothing, useful

Expected Results:  nice info ;)

also of small note, your bugzilla insisted on putting http://file:///usr/local

the http:// is compulsary?

Comment 1

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

->XP Apps:GUI

Both the General and Security tabs of the Page Info dialog are displaying
incorrect information when the page in question is a local directory listing,
such as file:///C:/ on Windows. This may have to be broken out into separate
bugs for the Security Info tab (to PSM) and the General tab.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

daniel, would this be covered by bug 52730?

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Hmm. where is this info obtained from? IF someone tells me, I guess I could add
support for it.

Comment 4

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

yes, this is already fixed by bug 52730 (technically it could be considered a
dup of 53641.) However, the Security tab is part of the PSM component, I'll
modify this bug to just address that particular issue, if that's ok with the
reporter?.

Comment 5

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

oops, forgot to set to default owner

Comment 6

[Stephane Saux]

->rangan
Isn't this issue covered by the fix to the about: page?
If so can you dup it.

Comment 7

[Rangan Sen]

Not completely - the security tab isn't broken anymore, but it would be nice if
we could show specific messages when it is a local file url, etc., rather than
the generic 'Web Site identity not verified' message, which is rather confusing ...

Comment 8

[John Unruh]

nsbeta1

Comment 9

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Summary:

This bug complains about wrong information in the general tab. This is not a PSM
problem.

In addition, it complains about the security tab. It says, there is a view
button and it does not work.

Meanwhile, there is no longer a view button. The security tab only says, web
site identity not verified. That's correct. It only gives general information
about the non-secure state of the page.

I agree that it would be nice, if the security tab would display better
information. However, if we decide to do that, we would have to add a clever
detection of the currently viewed content type. We would have to detect the
various protocols (ftp, gopher, chrome, about, file), and display approriate
information for any protocol.

IMHO, the current state is acceptable. We say it is not secure. That's fine,
because it is true.

I suggest to resolve this bug as wontfix.

Comment 10

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Since nobody objected yet, I'm resolving this as wontfix. Please reopen if you
disagree.

Comment 11

[u32858]

It was the:
Title:
URL:           undefined
Last Modified: Unknow

i was commenting on in this bug.

I think its still present

JG

Comment 12

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

jg, I think I don't understand your latest comment.

If you disagree with my comment, can you please exaplain, why? Thanks.

Comment 13

[u32858]

kaie,
I re-read your comments, i think you are correct to reslove. I will set it again.

Thanks for pointing this out.

JG

Comment 14

[John Unruh]

Verified.