584278 - Confusing documentation related to SSL cache at mozillazine

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Marko Pellikka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.125 Safari/533.4
Build Identifier: 2.0a1pre

The default setting for browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl is true. However at http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries it says:

True: Cache content received via SSL (security risk!)
False (default): Do not cache content received via SSL

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open about:config
2. See the value of browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl
3. Compare to http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries



Maybe the default value should be set back to "false", since bug 531801 "Enable caching of all SSL content to disk" is already resolved. http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c4a6cd1c88ec

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Not a Fennec bug.

I've emailed mozillazine to request access to update the KB wiki.  I'll update the documentation there when my account is ready.

Comment 2

[Marko Pellikka]

Any idea why the default wasn't changed back to "false" after bug 531801 was fixed?

Comment 3

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Any idea why the default wasn't changed back to "false" after bug 531801 was
> fixed?

Changing the default to "true" was part of the fix for bug 531801.  This change is intentional.  Changing the pref to false would disable the disk cache for all SSL content.