315589 - RSS breaks client certificate selection

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Hadmut Danisch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1)

Hi,

I have a HTTPS access which allows to use client certificates for authentication. Both the site's server certificate and my client certificate were issued by a private CA. The CA certificate is installed in Firefox. Works pretty well. 

But now there is a web page with an RSS newsfeed (Mediawiki) in the protected area of the webserver. Since I have subscribed to this RSS feed, firefox does not select the client certificate anymore, when accessing the server. As soon as I removed the RSS bookmarks, everything worked well again.

I guess that Firefox accesses the RSS feeds at startup. Since this particular RSS feed is accessible only with a client certificate or a one-time-password, the RSS access fails at startup. This failure seems to drive firefox in a state where it can't use the client certificate anymore.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 270776?

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

... or bug 254534 comment 2?

Comment 3

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Hadmut: Are you still seeing this issue in Firefox 3.5 or 3.6?

Comment 4

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Moving this bug to the RSS component.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 4 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.