Bug 147367

Summary:	Firefox ignores network.enableIDN setting
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ian Pilcher <arequipeno>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	cefrodrigues, eric.eisenhart, ivololeribar, wtogami
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281377
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Fixed In Version:	1.0.1-1.3.1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Ian Pilcher 2005-02-07 17:46:26 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
When network.enableIDN is set to false in about:config, IDN lookups
will initially fail.  When Firefox is stopped and restarted, however,
they will work again, even though the network.enableIDN is still set
to false.

See http://www.shmoo.com/idn/ for an example of how this can be used
for phishing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-1.0-2.fc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Start Mozilla Firefox.
2.  Type "about:config" into the URL bar.
3.  Set network.enableIDN to false.
4.  Visit http://www.shmoo.com/idn/ and click on one of the links;
    lookup will fail (properly).
5.  Close Firefox & restart.
6.  Type "about:config" into URL bar; confirm that network.enableIDN
    is still set to false.
7.  Visit http://www.shmoo.com/idn/ and click on one of the link;
    lookup will succeed.
    

Actual Results:  IDN lookup succeeds, even though network.enableIDN is
set to false.

Expected Results:  IDN lookup should fail.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Carlos Rodrigues 2005-02-17 15:56:53 UTC

This also happens with firefox-1.0-8 from development.

Comment 2 Ian Pilcher 2005-02-26 03:42:46 UTC

Appears to be fixed in 1.0.1-1.3.1.

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2005-02-28 16:02:20 UTC

Will there be an errata announcement for the 1.0.1-1.3.1 update?

Comment 4 Christopher Aillon 2005-02-28 17:59:28 UTC

I mailed on Saturday.  Whenever someone approves it, yes.

Comment 5 Christopher Aillon 2005-02-28 18:00:47 UTC

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-February/msg00068.html

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2005-04-20 03:26:58 UTC

*** Bug 143314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***