1467721 - navigation is overridden by changing location.href in WebSocket.onclose()

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1343331

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

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Attachment: poc.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180605171542

Steps to reproduce:

1. In Firefox, open the attached html file which includes the following script:
        const socket = new WebSocket('ws://example.net');
        socket.onclose = function () { location.href = location.href };

2. try to go to a new page (e.g., clicking bookmark items, typing a URL in address bar or clicking <a> tag)



Actual results:

Navigation is overridden by "location.href = <URL>" in WebSocket.onclose().
If <URL> is location.href, Firefox reopens the current page.


Expected results:

Firefox should open the new page.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (back August 25; he/him)]

Not a severe enough issue to keep hidden, and a duplicate of public bug 1343331, so marking as such.