289847 - Closing the "Security Warning" will not prevent a secure site from loading.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[godsfantasy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

When one visit a secure site, the "Security Warning" would come up.  However,
when you close that warning by pressing the 'X' on the top right of its Window,
Firefox will proceed to load the website.  In other words, there is no way of
stopping the secure website from loading.

Firefox 1.0.2 on Windows XP SP2 w/ Java 1.5 Update 2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.paypal.com
2. Click on "Log in" on the top right
3. Security Warning comes up.  Close it by pressing 'X' on the top right of the
dialogue box.

Actual Results:  
Firefox 1.0.2 proceed to load the website (in this case, Paypal's login page).

Expected Results:  
Firefix 1.0.2 should NOT have proceeded loading the webpage (in this case,
Paypal's login page).

Windows XP SP2 w/ all latest patch installed
Java 1.5 Update 2
Firefox 1.0.2 (public release)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Bruno Harbulot]

HTTPS Mixed Content: Loading a web page with mixed content will generate a warning, but there doesn't seem to be a way to prevent the HTTP content to be loaded.

Following an "http://" link from an HTTPS page: this generates a warning (with security.warn_leaving_secure set to true), but still does it anyway.

It would be better if there was a way to cancel the action (similar to the way it happens when submitting a form on an HTTPS page to a plain HTTP target).

Comment 4

[Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)]

Both of those dialog boxes were recently completely removed in bug 799009.

Comment 5

[Bruno Harbulot]

It's not just about the warning boxes, but about the ability to prevent the insecure action from happening.

You say in bug 799009:

> 4. Warning, you are viewing a site with mixed content.
> 
> For #4, we've already decided to use passive indicators for mixed content, instead of active indicators.

Having passive indicators can make sense (as long as they're still clearly visible, see bug 804974, crossing part of the bar with a red line is a good example). However, there should still be another box asking whether the user wants to proceed, or having a way to prevent the browser from making the request. I guess this falls under bug 782654.