165058 - Mozilla does not send a refer-field while it should

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, defect, P2)

Description

[Sander Holthaus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: sorry, not have access to at the moment, but downloaded it as 1.1 release yesterday

When loading a website, Mozilla sends valid referrer fields for images. If you 
press refresh, Mozilla will again load / check those same images, however 
WITHOUT sending a referrerfield. Same happens when images are dynamically 
replaced through javascript.
Website's protected against image-hyjacking by checking the referrer-field 
(commonly used!) and which require a referrer from the present domain (no 
empty refferers allowed) will send an error and will brake the page since it 
no longer shows the images.
If you AGAIN press the refresh, Mozilla WILL send out a valid referrer and the 
page will show up correct again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a website that check for referrers (and does not allow and empty 
referrerstring) of images
2. Press refresh
3.

Actual Results:  
Images protected by checking the referrers will not show up.

Expected Results:  
In case of a refresh OR when requesting / replacing images dynamically 
(javascript), Mozilla should send a valid referrer.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

uhm... Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) is the useragent
string of IE6, not mozilla 1.1.  that said, i am able to reproduce the problem
using mozilla 1.1 under linux.

changing platform:OS to ALL:ALL

this is most likely an imagelib bug since shift-reload causes the referrers to
be set correctly.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

rick's patch for bug 93015 should fix this bug as well.

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

leaving untargeted since this will go away just as soon as bug 93015 is fixed.

-> rpotts

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

This worksforme on a current CVS Build (linux). is anyone still seeing this bug?

Comment 5

[Sander Holthaus]

Works for me too (since 1.3 I believe)...

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no patch = not fixed

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm