Closed Bug 1678719 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

HTTPS Mode makes http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/ unreachable

Categories

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: HTTP
Version:
Firefox 83
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: marcausl, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-triaged])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0

Steps to reproduce:

try to visit http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/ with HTTPS only mode enabled. Reach another web site with https://www.sumoforum.net
Turn off HTTPS for this site. Try to visit http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/ but it is still converted to https: and not found.

Actual results:

Try to visit http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/ but it is still converted to https: and not found. http://www.sumoforum.net converts to https and reaches a strange site.

Expected results:

visit http version.

Note that the https everywhere add-on works correctly once this site is listed at http.

Hey Marc,
I tried reproducing this issue on the latest versions of Firefox Nightly 85.0a1 (2020-11-24) , beta 84.0b4 and release 83.0 and the redirection was indeed to a site with a domain that's not been configured for use. This behaviour is the same for Chrome as well so I do not believe this is a Firefox specific behaviour. Can you cross-check with other browsers?

Flags: needinfo?(marcausl)

If you turn off HTTPS it works correctly in Chrome and in Firefox. Only with HTTPS only turned on does it go to the bogus https site or to 404 not found. Firefox is trying https even though it is turned off. I suspect your exception list only allows http after an https failure, rather than skipping https altogether.

Flags: needinfo?(marcausl)

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → Networking: HTTP
Product: Firefox → Core

Can you pleas take a look?

Severity: -- → S4
Flags: needinfo?(julianwels)
Flags: needinfo?(ckerschb)
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [necko-triaged]

Hi Marc, thanks for reporting your issue!

I have trouble replicating what you're describing though.

What I did:

  1. Navigated to http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/
  2. Clicked on "Continue to HTTP Site"-button
  3. http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/ successfully loaded with HTTP
  4. Navigated to http://www.sumoforum.net
  5. http://www.sumoforum.net successfully loaded with HTTP

Did I do something wrong or did the issue get resolved by the website administrators maybe?

Flags: needinfo?(marcausl)
Flags: needinfo?(julianwels)
Flags: needinfo?(ckerschb)

I tried in a clean profile and did not get the failure. Whatever caused it has gone away but I had to use "forget about this site" in my normal profile to clean up the problem. So something did go wrong but I can't reproduce it.

I can't close this - my only choices are invalid and duplicate - works for me is gone. Should I have used invalid?

Flags: needinfo?(marcausl)

All good, closing it :)

Blocks: https-only-mode
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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