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Feature: Identity Management Firefox browser configuration script now checks if the browser is configured to sent Referrer header in HTTP requests for Identity Management.
Reason: Firefox browsers which would not have network.http.sendRefererHeader configuration option set to True would fail to connect to Identity Management Web UI even though they run the configuration script.
Result (if any): Configuration script ensures that network.http.sendRefererHeader configuration option is set correctly and the Firefox browser can thus connect to Web UI.
I have Fedora 16 installed with default firefox from repos (firefox-12.0-1.fc16.x86_64) and I'm unable to login.
I get a bit cryptic error "Missing or invalid HTTP Referer, missing". It seems that latest version of Firefox is not sending Referrer header (I've tried this also in safe mode and without extentions).
Without allowing Password Logins on server (KrbMethodK5Passwd On), I can't use IPA.
Does IPA really need the referrer header for login?
If it absolutely needs to, I'd prefer to see more user friendly messages about possible issues and help on how to solve them (advice on Firefox configuration changes if possible, pointer to changes server side, etc).
Also the error message that the referrer headers are "missing or invalid" is not very good for debugging. It does make a big difference if the browser is not sending some header at all or if it's corrupted.
ipa-server-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
The Apache error log /var/log/httpd/errors may have additional information on the source of the problem.
I'm not able to duplicate this. Can you install the Live HTTP headers (or similar) browser plugin to see what is being sent back and forth to the server?
Comment 4RHEL Program Management
2012-05-18 04:05:05 UTC
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Hey Rob,
I've installed Live HTTP headers, cleared my cache, logins and cookies and opened the page. Obviously, I've obfusted the hostname and hopefully removed my true login into.
There's one 404 in the logs, perhaps relevant?
https://my.machine.domain/ipa/ui/develop.js
GET /ipa/ui/develop.js HTTP/1.1
Host: my.machine.domain
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us,cs;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 15:45:12 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 215
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=97
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Full headers attached in a sec.
Yes I did. I wasn't able to login via negotiate (more info in comment #0).
I still can't login in FF, but I can login via password in Chrome as a workaround.
I don't know why Firefox wouldn't be sending a Referer header, Basic auth or not.
We require a Referer to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
Can you try creating a new profile in Firefox to see if that fixes things?
Bingo.
It's set to 0 (user set, Integer; default is 2). I haven't touch this config, but I seem to recall that when I installed IPA it did some configuration changes to my browser to support negotiate.
May it be that it's calling some kind of 'toggle' instead of setting this to 1?
(if this is total nonsense, please ignore)
We have signed javascript that makes config changes but that is just added a domain to network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris setting. We do not touch sendRefererHeader.
Hmm, in that case I'm not sure what caused this change in Firefox.
Is there a way to read the value via JavaScript and guide the user to check the settings? It's really a trivial fix once it'c clear where to look :)
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.
For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.
If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0528.html