849081 - Figure out which reftests won't need the HTTP annotation once bug 846890 lands

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Bill McCloskey [inactive unless it's an emergency] (:billm)]

Most reftests are loaded as file:/// URLs. Once bug 846890, a reftest will be able to access other file URLs directly. Previously, that sort of access was prohibited by security restrictions, so the test would have to be annotation as an HTTP test in the reftest manifest.

So, once bug 846890 lands, we should be able to remove the HTTP annotation from any reftest that uses it solely to ensure that other files are accessible.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(Technically, this depends on bug 847272, which fixed some assertions when loading local fonts over file://. Without that bug's fix, we'd still need the HTTP annotations to prevent assertion-failures. --> Adding dependency.)

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Bill McCloskey (:billm) from comment #0)
> So, once bug 846890 lands, we should be able to remove the HTTP annotation
> from any reftest that uses it solely to ensure that other files are
> accessible.

This applies to most, if not all, of the font-face reftests listed here:
  http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/reftests/font-face/reftest.list
(currently HTTP, but they don't need to be)