Re: Forcing every request from a docShell to use LOAD_ANONYMOUS

On 17/08/2013 3:57 AM, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> I'm having trouble following the initial question. What does it mean
> for a request to be "made via the docshell"?

Made via one specific docShell.  We create a <browser> element that will 
be used only to process a queue of URLs we want to thumbnail.  We want 
every request processed by the docShell associated with this browser to 
have the LOAD_ANONYMOUS flag.

Does that clarify?

Thanks,

Mark


>
> If you add LOAD_ANONYMOUS to that list and also make all docshells set
> that flag, then all page loads and their subcomponents will have that
> flag set. That's not what you want.
>
> That said, adding the flag to that list seems independently useful.
>
> -christian
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Jason Duell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 08/16/2013 09:28 AM, Jason Duell wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/16/2013 06:23 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the code, we do not pass on the LOAD_ANONYMOUS flag to
>>>> subrequests of a load group: <
>>>>
>>>> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/src/nsLoadGroup.cpp#1035>.
>>>> I'm not sure what the reason behind this is, but you can verify whether
>>>> this is where the problem comes from by breaking on that code and
>>>> inspecting the load group and the attached request's flags after this
>>>> call.
>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder if this is also what causes
>>>
>>>     https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=831153
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, looks like it must be something else that causes the refresh bug--the
>> loadFlags in question are part of the mask.
>>
>> bz/biesi: so for Mark's issue, could we just add LOAD_ANONYMOUS to the list
>> here?
>>
>> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/src/nsLoadGroup.cpp#1035>.
>>
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ehsan
>>>> <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Mark Hammond
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In bugs 875986 and 902439, we are trying to arrange for a docShell
>>>>> hosted
>>>>> in a (remote) browser used for thumbnailing to arrange for all requests
>>>>> made via that docShell to use the LOAD_ANONYMOUS flag.  This should
>>>>> solve a
>>>>> number of problems, the most pressing of which is that SSL client
>>>>> certificates are being prompted for (or just silently sent) while doing
>>>>> the
>>>>> thumbnail for certain sites.
>>>>>
>>>>> At first I thought it should be as simple as docShell.loadGroup.flags |=
>>>>> Cu.nsIRequest.LOAD_ANONYMOUS, but this isn't having the desired effect.
>>>>> I
>>>>> tried various other things and asked on #developers, but I've been
>>>>> unable
>>>>> to work out how the make this happen.  The interactions between the
>>>>> docShell, loadGroups and requests is fairly involved, so even looking at
>>>>> the code and stepping through in the debugger isn't giving me any joy.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can someone tell me how I can make this happen?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
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