991019 - Firefox modifies $_SESSION data where other browsers do not

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140314220517

Steps to reproduce:

Open Firefox and navigaet to http://www.imagefactory.it
This site runs wordpress version 3.8.1 and the plugin wp-photo-album-plus, of wich i am the developer.

Note the diagnostic text in red right between the banner text and the breadcrumb box:

[WPPA+ dbg msg: On line 528 in wppa-functions.php: $_SESSION['wppa_session']['search_root'] set to: 1 meaning: HOME]

Now click on the (airplane) image right below the text: AIRSHOW

The diagnostic changes into:

[WPPA+ dbg msg: On line 528 in wppa-functions.php: $_SESSION['wppa_session']['search_root'] set to: 4 meaning: AIRSHOW]

Now fill in the edit box at the right hand side of the screen, right below RECERCA FOTO, the text: eagle
Tick the checkbox: Ricerca solo nella sezione corrente, this will tell the server to search only in the album AIRSHOW ( the search root ) and its sub albums.
Press the button: Search.


Actual results:

The next screen shows the diagnostic text:

[WPPA+ dbg msg: On line 99 in wppa-breadcrumb.php: $_SESSION['wppa_session']['search_root'] = 11 meaning: NATURA]

and the search results of album 11: NATURA and its sub albums.

This is faulty, and happens only in Firefox, IE11, Opera, Safari and Chrome produce the right results:


Expected results:

[WPPA+ dbg msg: On line 99 in wppa-breadcrumb.php: $_SESSION['wppa_session']['search_root'] = 4 meaning: AIRSHOW]

and only one line of thumbnail images from the correct albums.

Unfortunately i can not attach 2 files, if you need the modified files for the red diagnostics, i canb mail them to you.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

You can attach 2 files after filing the bug.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Have you tried in Firefox with a new profile in Safe Mode?

Also, bug 279905 was marked duplicate of bug 263057.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

I tried a new profile in safe mode.
This works partially, the wppa-pagelinks are still faulty.
That is when you press the [2] link after the result on the Nature example.
So this is not a workable workaround.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: A file with added diagnostics to replace the original

the file wppa-functions.php attached has a debug statement added to show the red information line on the page

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: wppa-breadcrumb.php

This file also contains a debug statement

Comment 6

[Abe - QA (:Abe_LV)]

User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Version 	46.0a1
Build ID 	20160107030235
Channel 	nightly

[e-mail], 
Thank you for taking time to report this.
Are you still able to reproduce in the latest version ?

Comment 7

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

Closing this bug due to lack of response from the reporter.