543766 - Disabling 3rd Party Cookies breaks microsummary generation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Microsummaries, defect)

Description

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

I use microsummaries for some bugzilla queries, and if you disable third party cookies, they no longer work.

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Whoops, not a duplicate.

Comment 3

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

In nsMicrosummaryService.js, the load function just needs to QI request.channel to nsIHttpChannelInternal, and set forceAllowThirdPartyCookie.

Comment 4

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Rwar.  I want to disable third party cookies, and this is the only reason why I cannot.

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Attachment: v1.0

We can't really unit test this in an automated way as far as I can tell.

Comment 6

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Given that the user specifically disabled 3rd party cookies, why is it OK for us to circumvent that here?

Comment 7

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Because we are going to the first party site.  Chrome is considered a third party, but chrome is privileged.  We are not loading arbitrary content, but rather content from the site that has the cookie.

Comment 8

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Comment on attachment 441400 [details] [diff] [review]
v1.0

r=me. seems like this should be testable, using the local server?

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

- BUGSPAM -
Wontfixing all Microsummaries bugs, since the feature has been removed from the core product and previous versions won't get further fixes for it.
If interested in supporting Microsummaries in your add-on, you're free to use our old microsummaries code and to search all previously open bugs by looking for [microsummaries-feature-removal] in the status whiteboard field.