[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 204736] [GTK] Allows visiting webpages that use HSTS despite certificate verification failure?
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Tue Dec 17 02:02:33 PST 2019
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204736
--- Comment #12 from Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #9)
> (In reply to Claudio Saavedra from comment #7)
> > I wonder if you could use WebKitWebsiteDataManager to fetch the HSTS data
> > for the site in question. If there is HSTS data you probably want to
> > disallow continuing. This implies checking for every site that fails to load
> > with a SSL error, I guess, so it might not be ideal.
>
> Hm, maybe a good idea... that might even be the ideal solution.
>
> Let's do the check at the WebKit level, though. Can't expect dozens of
> different applications to do such a check.
>
> (In reply to Carlos Garcia Campos from comment #1)
> > hsts-enforced signal is not emitted for that url. Both ff and chromium allow
> > to accept the risk and continue.
>
> Huh. So Claudio tested Chrome and found you can't continue. I just tested
> Firefox, and was also unable to continue. Could you have typed the URL
> wrong? It is: http://suddomain.preloaded-hsts.badssl.com/
I've copy pasted in both ff and chromium and in both cases I can click in advance button and then proceed. The end result is a 404, though.
> I checked Epiphany again just now and found the continue button is actually
> broken. It tries to *download* the page as a resource and fails with "Error
> downloading: Misdirected Request" which sounds like an artifact of using a
> redirect to switch from http:// -> https://. I'm not sure if I tried this
> before, or perhaps I just saw the button and assumed it worked.
Yes, that happens here too, but not in MiniBrowser.
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