249834 - security settings won't allow event handler to close window opened by script

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Security: CAPS, defect)

Description

[Dmitriy Geels]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

Security settings won't allow event handler (set to button in child window) to
close window opened by script in parent window, if child window opened with
url='' and filled with contents dynamically by script in parent window.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
function renameGroup(grid, grname, grdesc, act){
	var dlg = window.open('' /*we won't load anything into this window*/,
		"sometitle",
		"toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no, status=no, menubar=no,
scrollbars=no, resizable=no, copyhistory=no, width=300, height=120");
	var bodyRef = dlg.document.getElementsByTagName("body").item(0);
	dlg.document.title = "title";
	var frm = dlg.document.createElement('form');
	frm.method = 'POST';
	frm.action = act;
	frm.addEventListener("submit", function(){self.parent.focus();
self.parent.document.location.reload(false); self.close();/*the first place to
get info message in JS console*/}, false);
	var _br = dlg.document.createElement('br');

	var _el = dlg.document.createElement('input');
	_el.type = 'hidden';
	_el.name = 'id';
	_el.value = grid;
	frm.appendChild(_el);

	var _el = dlg.document.createTextNode("Name: ");
	frm.appendChild(_el);
	_el = dlg.document.createElement('input');
	_el.type = 'text';
	_el.size = '50';
	_el.name = 'name';
	_el.value = grname;
	frm.appendChild(_el);
	frm.appendChild(_br);

	_el = dlg.document.createTextNode("Description: ");
	frm.appendChild(_el);
	_el = dlg.document.createElement('input');
	_el.type = 'text';
	_el.size = '50';
	_el.name = 'desc';
	_el.value = grdesc;
	frm.appendChild(_el);
	_br = dlg.document.createElement('br');
	frm.appendChild(_br);
	_br = dlg.document.createElement('br');
	frm.appendChild(_br);

	var _el = dlg.document.createElement('input');
	_el.type = 'submit';
	_el.value = 'Save';
	frm.appendChild(_el);

	var _el = dlg.document.createElement('input');
	_el.type = 'button';
	_el.addEventListener("click", function(){self.parent.focus(); self.close()
/*the second place to get message*/;}, false);
	_el.value = 'Cancel';
	frm.appendChild(_el);

	bodyRef.appendChild(frm);
}

Actual Results:  
Message 'Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script.' in JS
console

Expected Results:  
Child window have been closed as in case if some page was loaded into it (with
same code, as generated by script).

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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