967774 - replaceState does not update referrer information

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[gabriel]

Attachment: test case

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131213004002

Steps to reproduce:

When changing the current state, the URL is reflected on the address bar, but any request made from that page will still see the old URL.

1. visit a page at /index.html
2. updateState to change the current url to /new.html
3. create an iframe on the document
4. on that iframe, print document.referrer


Actual results:

document.referrer == /index.html
(mismatches url in address bar)


Expected results:

document.referrer == /new.html
(match the URL displayed in address bar)

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

I don't understand it (the testcase just keeps "loading"), but maybe related to bug 631949.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We get the referrer from mOwnerContent->NodePrincipal(), which isn't affected by pushState calls.

The spec specifies that you use the document address, but that gives incorrect behavior for loads from about:blank.  Need to get the spec sorted out here...

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I filed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24613