1282929 - support protocol links do not work (request denied)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for iOS :: Browser, defect)

Description

[Nathanael Alcock]

1. Go to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Email_links
2. Click on the link named "Send email to nowhere".

Actual result: Nothing happens
Expected result: Either the Mail app opens, or an in-app mail dialogue sheet appears.

Device: iPod Touch

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

2016-06-29 13:19:32.198 [Warning] [BrowserViewController.swift:2224] webView(_:decidePolicyForNavigationAction:decisionHandler:) > Denying unprivileged request: <NSMutableURLRequest: 0x147688840> { URL: mailto:[e-mail]?Subject=Hello}

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

As does tel:

2016-06-29 13:35:38.556 [Warning] [BrowserViewController.swift:2224] webView(_:decidePolicyForNavigationAction:decisionHandler:) > Denying unprivileged request: <NSMutableURLRequest: 0x148d21060> { URL: tel:[phone] }

Probably other protocols no good too

Comment 3

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

Attachment: Link to Github pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/pull/1972

Our isLocal check returns true if the request has no host, which will be the case for all of these external URIs. Our local webserver is HTTP(S)-only, so there's no need to block other kinds of requests.

Comment 4

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

master: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/commit/a4d0d5f30b34e904f7b639a344b62757782dba92
v5.x: fdd07d3