Closed
Bug 70162
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
"access denied" error messages should say what access is denied to
Categories
(Core :: Security: CAPS, defect)
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mozilla1.0
People
(Reporter: jruderman, Assigned: security-bugs)
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Details
Most of Mozilla's error messages are much more informative that IE's "object
error" and "object does not support this property or method". As a result, I
always debug my javascript code in Mozilla and then just hope that it works on
IE. Mozilla's "access denied" error messages, however, doesn't tell me what
access was denied to.
1. javascript:void(x=window.open("http://www.mozillazine.org"));
2. javascript:alert(x.document.images[0]);
Current error message:
JavaScript error:
line 0: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Access to property denied" code: "1
010" nsresult: "0x805303f2 (NS_ERROR_DOM_PROP_ACCESS_DENIED)" location: "<unkno
wn>"]
It would be nice if the message could specify which property I wasn't allowed
to access (for example, "access to property x.document denied"). This would
make it much easier to test security-related bugs and would also make it easier
for webpage authors to figure out what's going on when Mozilla doesn't let them
do something.
By the way, why does the "access denied" message above have so much extranous
information (error codes and the constant name
NS_ERROR_DOM_PROP_ACCESS_DENIED)? Most javascript errors are much shorter:
JavaScript error:
line 0: document.foopy has no properties
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Assignee | |
Comment 1•24 years ago
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Mass changing milestone to Moz1.0 - stuff targeted for late spring/early summer.
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.0
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Reporter | |
Updated•23 years ago
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Summary: "access denied" messages should say what access is denied to → "access denied" error messages should say what access is denied to
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Assignee | |
Comment 3•23 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83131 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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