[Seaside-dev] Re: Enabling cookies causes callback links to incorrectly redirect in Firefox

[Lukas Renggli]

Ok, I changed it to return forbidden 403, that seems to be standard.

Lukas

On 13 March 2011 18:47, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I was not sure about that one either, but didn't know a better
> error code. How are other web frameworks dealing with this?
>
> Lukas
>
> On 13 March 2011 18:43, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/3/7 Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com>:
>>> That was a tricky one:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately the Mozilla engine does prefetching of some "random"
>>> links on websites
>>> (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Link_prefetching_FAQ). This
>>> aggressive prefixing is a highly controversial topic even in the
>>> FireFox community itself, because of all kinds of issues.
>>>
>>> Now obviously this prefetching is generally something we don't want to
>>> happen with Seaside applications as callbacks could unwillingly be
>>> triggered. I changed the Seaside code to deny all prefetch requests in
>>> WAApplication. This should solve the problem:
>>>
>>>  Name: Seaside-Core-lr.711
>>>  Author: lr
>>>  Time: 7 March 2011, 6:52:15 pm
>>>  UUID: 57d701cc-b90b-458d-9f7a-cf9a493a9997
>>>  Ancestors: Seaside-Core-dkh.710
>>>
>>>  - added a tester for prefetch requests
>>>
>>>  Name: Seaside-Session-lr.135
>>>  Author: lr
>>>  Time: 7 March 2011, 6:53:50 pm
>>>  UUID: 07b0af88-64b7-4bcb-8778-d14e448dddd9
>>>  Ancestors: Seaside-Session-pmm.134
>>
>> I'm wondering if not implemented (501) is the right error code. That
>> is in there because we only support GET and POST. But the prefetch is
>> a GET and we support that, just not as a prefetch. 5xx indicates a
>> server error, maybe bad request (400) or something other in the 4xx
>> range that signals a client error would be better.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Philippe
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