840710 - Use HTTPS instead of HTTP for Google Reader (Google Fusion) integration

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #840705 +++

browser.contentHandlers.types.0.uri;http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=%s
browser.feeds.handlers.webservice;http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=%s

These links should be https://. This should improve performance (because we'd be avoiding a HTTP -> HTTPS redirect) and security. But, I could not get https://fusion.google.com/ to work so we may need to work with them on it.

Comment 1

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

Google probably stopped maintaining fusion.google.com, because it redirects to a page where you choose between adding to iGoogle or to Reader, and they already phased out iGoogle for mobile and will phase out iGoogle for desktop in November 2013.
Source: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197

Comment 2

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

Attachment: patch

Both browser/ and mobile/ are affected.

Comment 3

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Comment on attachment 719367 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Review of attachment 719367 [details] [diff] [review]:
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This is actually unused on Metro and we should just remove the whole browser.contentHandlers section.  You can do that in this patch, or we can file a follow-up bug if you prefer.

Comment 4

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck) from comment #3)
> This is actually unused on Metro...

I mean that it is unused on *mobile*.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We'll need to get Google sign-off to change this URL. Joanne, can you help with that?

I vaguely recall this URL coming up before in a prior bug, but I can't find it now.

Comment 6

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

Google is discontinuing Reader. It doesn't make sense to get Google sign-off on this anymore.

Comment 7

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

By the time a fix here made it to release, Reader will have been phased out. Since iGoogle for desktop is also being discontinued too soon afterwards and fusion.google.com does not support HTTPS, but fixing this bug doesn't make much sense. I'm filing a separate bug to remove Google as a content handler for feeds.