472757 - Snowl can't subscribe to feeds which require authentication cookies

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Snowl, defect, P2)

Description

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5 Ubiquity/0.1.4
Build Identifier: 0.2

When attempting to subscribe to a feed that requires cookies (for example, a Google Reader feed), the subscription dialog reaches the "Connected" status and then stops.  This apparently happens because Snowl does not send any cookies with its request, and the server returns an error message instead of a valid feed.

Example feed: http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user%2F10529074966557486466%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Freading-list

Ideally, Snowl could use the browser's cookies and load the feed.  Or if that's not possible, it should display a useful error message when given an invalid or empty feed.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

I see the same thing.  It's strange, though, as Snowl uses XMLHttpRequest to load the feed, and XMLHttpRequest is supposed to send cookies.  So there might be a different bug at work here.

Comment 2

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Snowl throws the following exception when it tries to subscribe to a Google Reader feed:

2009-01-09 13:34:33	Snowl.Feed null	ERROR	error on subscribe result: TypeError: this.humanURI is null

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Resolving Snowl bugs WONTFIX because it is no longer an active Labs experiment.