1111307 - video player does not load if referer is disabled

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Webtools Graveyard :: Air Mozilla, defect, P1)

Description

[Cristian Ciupitu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141201111703

Steps to reproduce:

I opened https://air.mozilla.org/daala-are-we-compressed-yet/ with firefox-34.0-1.fc20.x86_64 having the following configuration:

    network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer;true
    network.http.sendRefererHeader;2
    network.http.referer.trimmingPolicy;0
    network.http.referer.spoofSource;true
    network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy;1


Actual results:

The video player didn't load at all.


Expected results:

The video player should have loaded as with other browers (Midori) or other less tuned Firefox profiles.

Comment 1

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

That's bad. Thanks for filing! 

Is it only for archived videos? Can you try this against a live video (we're about to have one in 20 min)?

We're currently "outsourcing" all the playing to Vid.ly using an iframe which gives us very limit control to do something about this.

However, in Q12015 we're planning to take over ALL playing of archived videos using HTML5 (using the JW Player library) and then the solution should depend less on things like this because we're just going list a set of URLs (to the CDN'ed video files) and let the client-side code figure it all out.

Comment 2

[Cristian Ciupitu]

Sorry, it seems I missed the opportunity. Where was the live video anyway?

Comment 3

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Richard, can you stand up a live stream somewhere that Cristian can point his browser to. 

Cristian, can you test to do what you do on this URL: https://air-dev.allizom.org/s/
It's using JWPlayer.

Comment 4

[Cristian Ciupitu]

(In reply to Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe] from comment #3)
> Cristian, can you test to do what you do on this URL:
> https://air-dev.allizom.org/s/

That plays fine for me.

Comment 5

[Cristian Ciupitu]

I've just retested with firefox-36.0.3-1.fc20.x86_64 and it looks like I can play the video.

Comment 6

[Andy Kochendorfer]

Platform deprecated.