522145 - stage pfs2 server should support http or https access

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Bug#517548 Created the pfs2.stage.mozilla.com server.

This server should be available via http or https.

Currently it's only available over http. We've added secure/non-secure page detection and this has broken http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck

Comment 1

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Should work over both now.

Comment 2

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Reopening... I think this will be a won't fix but...

Unless someone goes to https://pfs2.stage.mozilla.com and adds an exception for the self-signed cert... then the JSONP requests will fail silently.

This is going to be a chronic issue, since it's really hard to notice that this is causing the page to fail.

Comment 3

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Yeah, only option there is to install the mozilla root CA. https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaRootCertificate or we can point authstage to production pfs2.

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I was pointed to this bug as the reason why plugin-check on trunk is broken (which it is); since it's now resolved as fixed, and it still doesn't work, how are we going to fix it (and in what bug)?  Thanks!

Comment 5

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

What is the issue?

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Same as comment 0:

Loading http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck yields:

"Plugin Finding Service Error

We've encountered an error. Please try your request again later."

Comment 7

[Austin King [:ozten]]

(In reply to comment #5)
Because pfs2.stage.mozilla.com is self-signed and is only accessed via a script tag, the user isn't prompted with a security warning.

So the page fails silently. (comment #6)

But if you make a single request directly to pfs2 and accept the cert then http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck will work fine.

We are setting ourselves up for a chronic issue of false bugs reported and having to remember the specific dance steps to test this page on trunk and stage.

Comment 8

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Also, see comment 3 on how to install the Mozilla Root certificate.

Comment 9

[Austin King [:ozten]]

I don't like our current setup, but okay.

I've added Test Instructions to the wiki:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins:PluginCheck#Test_Instructions