64497 - redirection fails

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Mikko Hänninen]

At the page http://www.leonia.fi/verkkopankki/ when I click on the login button
(the grey button on bottom of the menu on the left, the text says "Kirjaudu
sisään verkkopankkiin"), the redirection fails. The link points to
http://www.leonia.fi/cgi-bin/vepa, which should redirect to the real service
location URL, eg. https://www31.leonia.fi/nd31a.nd/Vepa1/VEPFsVepa
(Yes, I know the page is in Finnish, but hopefully I've provided enough info
that the issue can be tested even if you don't know Finnish..)
Instead of ending up on the login page, "nothing happens", ie. the browser shows
a document loading for a moment, and then says "Document: Done" but there is no
change of page. I can also reproduce this by trying to go directly to the
http://www.leonia.fi/cgi-bin/vepa URL from any page.

A possible reason (ie. my guess) of why the redirect fails is that the protocol
for the redirected page is different from the initial request (http vs. https).

This redirection does work with Netscape 4.x on Linux and IE 5.x on Windows.

I'm using the Debian woody mozilla package, Mozilla M18 with build ID 2000110321.

Comment 1

[Fabian Guisset]

Adding block to tracking bug. Reporter could you please view the bugs blocking
bug 61693 to look for a similar one? Thanks!
Fabian.

Comment 2

[Martin Horwath]

Reporter you use a build from 2000110321, i think you haven't installed PSM.
On mozillazine i found following:
January 5, 2001: Today's build sees the return of a functional Personal Security
Manager for Linux (only in the tar.gz, not in the sea or the installer builds I
think).

Comment 3

[Mikko Hänninen]

I checked the other bugs related to 61693.

Bug 54358 seems to be a similar case, although the redirect happens with a
different mechanism (meta refresh header in the HTML, not HTTP status 302).
Also I can't actually reproduce this bug, mozilla seems to work fine in that
case for me.

I *can* reproduce bug 56523, but that also seems to be a different bug.  In my
bug I don't get any references to redirect_loop.xul, just a "nothing happens".

Comment 4

[Mikko Hänninen]

I don't think I have Personal Security Manager installed or not.  I'm using the
Debian woody (current unstable) package, and the documentation for that package
talks about downloading the PSM separately.

I don't see how this is related to the bug, would that somehow affect redirects
to https URLs?

Comment 5

[Fabian Guisset]

Because PSM is necessary to connect to https sites. Without PSM installed you 
cannot use SLL/secure IMAP/https sites.
Please retry with a latest build, that has PSM installed by default, thanx!

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Redirect worksforme with linux build 2001-01-05-08 (with integrated PSM).  The
Debian Woody package does not include PSM, so the redirect would fail.

Marking worksforme; please reopen if you can reproduce this after installing PSM.

Comment 7

[Mikko Hänninen]

That's probably it, I will see about getting the PSM.

It would be helpful if there was some kind of notice given in this situation
about what the problem is, though...  Something along the lines of "https:
protocol not supported", or whatever.  That should probably be marked somewhere
as an enhancement request.

Comment 8

[Mikko Hänninen]

On a further note, looks like this case is a duplicate of bug 47617 (no message
when https request is made but PSM is not installed).

I've yet to get the PSM to work, though. :-(  But that's a different issue.

Comment 9

[Tom Everingham]

verified WFM Linux 01/30/01