1276462 - Cookies are not being sent to white-listed sites

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Sudaraka Wijesinghe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20160524073714

Steps to reproduce:

Using nightly after May 25th, and a brand new profile

# Step 1
Visit http://www.whatarecookies.com/cookietest.asp

# Step 2
- Goto Preferences > Privacy
- Select "Use custom settings for history" option
- Uncheck "Accept cookies from sites"
- Visit http://www.whatarecookies.com/cookietest.asp

# Step 3
- Goto Preferences > Privacy
- Make sure "Accept cookies from sites" is NOT checked
- Click "Exceptions" button next to it
- Enter "http://www.whatarecookies.com/" in the "Address of website" box
- Click "Allow" button and then "Save Changes" button
- Visit http://www.whatarecookies.com/cookietest.asp


Actual results:

# Step 1
whatarecookies.com shows message "Cookies are ENABLED in this browser"

# Step 2
whatarecookies.com shows message "Cookies are DISABLED in this browser"

# Step 3
whatarecookies.com shows message "Cookies are DISABLED in this browser"


Expected results:

# Step 1
Got expected result

# Step 2
Got expected result

# Step 3
whatarecookies.com should shown message "Cookies are ENABLED in this browser". It seems when a cookies are disabled for all sites except for few white-listed ones, cookies are still being blocked for white-listed sites as well.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=5e25db36b720b695da94b2bc1373ea369408e404&tochange=6647b13a6ad92410d6a71298eded13ca655edbbe

Regressed by: Bug 219157


(I was surprised that in Firefox there is no automatic test!！)

Comment 3

[Valentin Gosu [:valentin] (he/him)]

I'll backout the patches, while we finish up work in bug 219157.

Comment 4

[Valentin Gosu [:valentin] (he/him)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/8cb9e54529f5cb4c2d02a9f6a2ea3e52c653db65
Bug 1276462 - Backout c18023d517ed (Bug 219157) a=backout

Comment 5

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Tracking this cookie regression for 49. In response to Alice's comment about a test in Comment 2, would it be possible for someone to write one?

Comment 6

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

landed https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8cb9e54529f5

Comment 9

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Looks like this was fixed while 49 was on nightly, from comment 6.