618787 - network.websocket.enabled true is broken

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: WebSockets, defect)

Description

[jonathan chetwynd]

provide means through about:config to enable websockets

#616733 disabled websockets.
blizzard and others suggest a means to enable will be provided.
about:config network.websocket.enabled true remains default
but does not enable websockets.

parity Opera enable websockets, tick box default unticked.

Comment 1

[jonathan chetwynd]

4.0b8pre 2010-12-12

Comment 2

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

did you try setting network.websocket.override-security-block?

Comment 3

[jonathan chetwynd]

I did without success, did you?

Comment 4

[jonathan chetwynd]

it was also set true as default...
another  bug?

Comment 5

[jonathan chetwynd]

oops..

well something  worked!

Comment 6

[jonathan chetwynd]

so seems set

network.websocket.enabled     true
network.websocket.override-security-block     true

then restart mozilla,

not quite as simple as Opera's tick box...
why have both?
just set enabled false as default, with warning if necessary.

Comment 7

[jonathan chetwynd]

well probably this bug has morphed,

Comment 8

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Let's say you deliberately set network.websocket.enabled to false and we then made the default value false. So far so good.

When the dangerous security holes in the protocol are fixed we want to enable it again so we set the flag to true by default and websockets are silently reenabled for you even though you stated specifically previously you didn't want them.