516303 - Minefield loads the wrong page when you click on "Why was this page blocked?" on the malware protection screen.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Safe Browsing, defect)

Description

[Brian Carpenter [:geeknik]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20090913 Minefield/3.7a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20090913 Minefield/3.7a1pre

If I remember correctly, in the past, when you clicked on the Why was this page blocked? link, it took you to a page explaining what was found on the page, how many times it was reported as bad, etc.  Now when you click on the link, it takes you to a completely worthless page that explains the Firefox Phishing and Malware Protection features and DOES NOT tell me why the page was blocked.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/its-an-attack.html seems to work fine. "Why was this page blocked?" goes to http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/its-an-attack.html

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Can you give the link of the page you are going to that is blocked and the link that you are getting when you go to why this was blocked?

Comment 3

[Brian Carpenter [:geeknik]]

The site that is blocked is http://mt-hacks.com/20090302-realtime-twitter-search-results-on-google.html and when I click on the "Why was this page blocked?" link, I end up @ http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/.

Comment 4

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

For malware, we get a specific report that talks about the site in question, and "Why was this site blocked?" takes you to that report.  For a phishing page, there is no such report, largely because the reason is always the same (the site was pretending to be something it isn't in an attempt to defraud people) so in that case, we fall back to the generic explanatory page since that has information both for users and site operators.

The page you reference in comment 3 is being blocked as phishing/web forgery, not malware, so this is behaving as-designed; we don't have a more specific page to go to.

I wish "INVALID" had a better name - I appreciate you reporting the bug, and it wasn't invalid in its construction - so please read this as RESOLVED->AS-DESIGNED.