1428278 - redirected with relative url to http on a https page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[neoedmund]

What did you do?
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1. when visit https://xxxx/
the response set http code 302 and Location:/aaaa in http header.



What happened?
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firefox redirect to http://xxxx/aaaa

What should have happened?
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firefox redirect to https://xxxx/aaaa

Is there anything else we should know?
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according to  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Location?utm_source=mozilla&utm_medium=devtools-netmonitor&utm_campaign=default

Location:<url> can be 
A relative (to the request URL) or absolute URL.

Comment 1

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Can you provide a URL for the site you are testing?

I use curl [1] to see the exact headers returned by my server, such as "curl -I https://developer.mozilla.org/", which shows my header as "Location: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/". A similar tool will confirm that your web server is sending the a relative URL in the location header.

[1] https://curl.haxx.se/

Comment 2

[neoedmund]

(In reply to John Whitlock [:jwhitlock] from comment #1)

Hi, I just made some research, and confirmed that relative URL in Location handled correctly by Firefox.
Sorry that the issue seems happened in somewhere server-side layer of nginx or application-server(jetty) which rewrite the Location.
It take time to dig into, that I'd rather using absolute URL in my program.
Since the Firefox is nothing wrong. I close the issue. Thank you.