Closed Bug 1843757 Opened 1 year ago Closed 9 months ago

Cache contents cause automatic URL rewriting

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect, P2)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: Cache
Version:
Firefox 115
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 968273

People

(Reporter: sam, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-triaged][necko-priority-review])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Steps to reproduce:

Install pi-hole docker on a remote ip. Log-in, browse the admin interface. Replace docker image with adguard-home docker, at same ip address. Disable all address-bar suggestions. Clear history. Tried to go to the adguard-home webinterface at http://$IPADDR.

Actual results:

Firefox sends http request for http://$IPADDR/admin. This returns an error, as that url doesn't exist on the adguard-home webserver (but did exist, and was accessed on the pi-hole container)

Expected results:

Firefox sends the http request to http://$IPADDR as typed.

Clearing history and restarting in "safe mode", did not fix the issue. Clearing the cache did. Browser console logs showed the HTTP GET request going to the http://$IPADDR/admin with no reference to the original contents of the URL bar, wireshark logs also show nothing about the original URL. accessibility.blockautorefresh was set to true to ensure there was no redirection.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Address Bar
Component: Address Bar → Networking: Cache
Product: Firefox → Core

History is not responsible for caching redirects and any other network state. The address bar only uses history, so moving this to Networking:Cache.

Blocks: necko-cache
Severity: -- → S3
Priority: -- → P2
Whiteboard: [necko-triaged][necko-priority-review]

Hi Samuel,

Can you provide http logs? You can use the about:logging to either make a profile or log to file. You may want to email to necko@mozilla.com for privacy reasons.

Flags: needinfo?(sam)

I am travelling right now and don't have access to that machine. I will send these over when I get home.

Flags: needinfo?(sam)

I think we've had bugs like this before.

I think what's going on is that you have a HTTP redirect from / to => /admin with the wrong caching headers that make the redirect be cached for an unreasonable amount of time.
This is most likely a problem caused by the server. I expect it also happens in other browsers?

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 months ago
Duplicate of bug: 968273
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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