204578 - cannot view https:// sites, browser does not load https:// pages

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030415 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

i cannot view https:// sites.  currently i'm using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.  OS is
windows 2000.

ability to view https:// sites was lost between the april 10 and april 11
phoenix nightly releases.

i build firebird almost daily on linux and this behavior is not observed on that
platform; i have no problem viewing https:// sites with my current builds on
linux.  i am able to view/login to the https:// sites with MSIE browser on the
windows 2000 platform, so i know it's not a firewall issue.

-- lee

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  browse to any https:// site
2.  observe that phoenix/firebird does nothing.


Actual Results:  
the https:// site does not load

Expected Results:  
phoenix/firebird should load the https:// site

Comment 1

[lee]

marking bug as "worksforme".  latest phoenix/firebird binary (Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030511 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6) does not exhibit this https:// viewing deficiency.  thanks to
whoever fixed this thing!  :)

-- lee

Comment 2

[John Unruh]

V

Comment 3

[dan baker]

may not be the same issue considering the age of the original bug.... but I have problems on MANY sites loading https pages where there are logins. I dunno if they are using some weird javascripts or what, but the display doesn't complete loading and shows badly formatted 'plain' html with links and broken functionality with many links leading to void().

This affects LOTS of popular sites like: schwab.com, paypal, ebay, and now facebook!

seems to be only on my older laptop which is running WindowsXP pro, Firefox 20.0.1