1134557 - Problem accessing cross domain content from SSL enabled sites (addon sdk)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[gemini]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.111 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Create addon with cross-domain iframe like in example with wikipedia https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Guides/Content_Scripts/Cross_Domain_Content_Scripts#Cross-domain_iframes
Change wikipedia url to any https url e.g. https://secure.url/
set 
"permissions": {
  "cross-domain-content": ["https://secure.url/"]
}


Someone else also encountered same problem: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28130530/firefox-extension-cross-domain-iframe-https


Actual results:

permission denied accessing contents from inside iframe.


Expected results:

Since  "cross-domain-content" is set to allow "https://secure.url/" (includes scheme) then according to docs here: 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Guides/Content_Scripts/Cross_Domain_Content_Scripts
it should be possible to access its contents also for SSL enabled websites

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This isn't a layout issue.  Over to the addon SDK to figure out whether this is a problem on their end or somewhere down in Gecko, and if the latter where.

Comment 2

[Michelle Funches - QA]

we are setting this to New so that component group can review

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399562