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bug #39726: LM stops working on Youtube and Vimeo for Firefox23

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Thu 08 Aug 2013 07:18:26 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  valkov
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
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Sat 07 Sep 2013 09:44:12 AM UTC, comment #14: 

Hi,

It turned out I can set the http link to the Vimeo clip instead of the index page. Now the http link in the message about mixed content will send you to the clip.

This is now as fixes as possible. I'm closing the thicket. Re-open it or submit a new one if there are more issues.

The project switched from SVN to Git, so if you are building manually, check the website for information about the new repository.

Ivaylo Valkov <valkov>
Group administrator
Sat 31 Aug 2013 10:05:41 AM UTC, comment #13: 

Hi,

I can confirm the reported behavior on Vimeo. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do. The index page at Vimeo alway redirects to HTTPS. [1] The rest of the pages work fine. It is working with the The Toggle Mixed Active Content addon.

I'm considering this fixed then?

[1]
wget -S http://vimeo.com/
--2013-08-31 12:59:58--  http://vimeo.com/
Resolving vimeo.com (vimeo.com)... 74.113.233.128
Connecting to vimeo.com (vimeo.com)|74.113.233.128|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  Server: Apache
  X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.14
  Expires: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 22:00:17 GMT
  Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
  Location: https://vimeo.com/

Ivaylo Valkov <valkov>
Group administrator
Thu 29 Aug 2013 05:22:24 PM UTC, comment #12: 

Hi,

Tested rev418 on Vimeo. The third option (view the page without encryption) apparently doesn't work. Clicked it, the page reloaded but get the same notification instead of video in http.

The other two options open the appropriate links as expected.

Thanks for the work!

Anonymous
Wed 28 Aug 2013 08:33:05 PM UTC, comment #11: 

Hi,

Thanks for the link to the addon. I've implemented the third option (see attached file). There is a link to the Mozilla blog article, the addon and a link to the clip over HTTP. The fix is in revision 417.

Please test it and report back any issues.

Thanks.


Ivaylo Valkov <valkov>
Group administrator
Sat 24 Aug 2013 10:55:01 PM UTC, comment #10: 

Hi,

I think the third option (adding a notification) is probably best as it probably involves less work and would let the user knows that LM is not broken.

I also found this
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/toggle-mixed-active-content/

So if you are browsing youtube you can just turn the blocker off for your whole Youtube session so you don't have to unblock/reload everytime you try to watch another video.

Thanks for looking into the issue.

Anonymous
Tue 20 Aug 2013 07:48:26 PM UTC, comment #9: 

Hi,

I can confirm the issue. It is exactly as explained in the Mozilla blog article. The page is requested over HTTPS, but the video URLs are generated by the website as HTTP, hence they are being blocked. This is a blocker.

There are additional issues.

Linterna Mágica runs as a script inside the page without privilege access to the browser. The only way to detect this issue is to match the website URL against the extracted video URLs.  Even when the issue is detected there is not much to do.

One option is to rewrite the video URLs to use HTTPS. This wont work - clips don't load. It is already tested. Even if it works, there is no guarantee that it will work everywhere.

The second option is to reload the page over HTTP. This will not be done as it is a security issue. It is not a good idea to decide instead the user how to visit the page.

A third option might be to inform the user and give him/her the choice to reload the page over HTTP or not watch the clip. This would probably have the effect of forcing a reload over HTTP, as most users would probably choose to visit the page over HTTP.

A fourth option would be a mix between three and two - add a config option to reload such pages over HTTP, which would be disabled by default. As a result of the default value the user would be warned and have the choice to manually reload.

I'm out of other ideas right now. Any comments?

Ivaylo Valkov <valkov>
Group administrator
Mon 12 Aug 2013 09:16:46 PM UTC, comment #8: 

Hi,

Thanks for reporting and providing so much information. Unfortunately I was a little bit preoccupied (and I still am) I couldn't respond in time. I'll read the Mozilla blog post and see if there is something I can do to fix things. Thanks again.

Ivaylo Valkov <valkov>
Group administrator
Sat 10 Aug 2013 07:32:57 PM UTC, comment #7: 

Hi,

Turned out this is the reason

https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2013/04/10/mixed-content-blocking-enabled-in-firefox-23/

The script works now if disable block manually when the pages load.

Anonymous
Fri 09 Aug 2013 08:17:05 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Hi,

More update. The script works when the url is http but not when it is https for both vimeo and youtube. You can get the http version if you click the video from some third referring site such as google.

This happens only with Firefox 23.

Thanks




Anonymous
Fri 09 Aug 2013 11:20:50 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Just a comment as you say Vimeo is not working with VLC: Did you try my version of ViewTube as shown in issue 1 at Sebaro's page?
(http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/169665). This should work with VLC (and Totem) in Chromium also on Vimeo. You can give me a comment on the userscripts page.

Tobias Rupf <trupf>
Thu 08 Aug 2013 09:18:28 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Hi,

I think I have found a pattern.

Both Youtube and Vimeo videos work if I access it through a reference site say google (search the video in google first and then get to it through there) and they  don't if I go to Vimeo or Youtube first and then play the video.

Sorry for the multiple posts, I don't mean to spam.

Anonymous
Thu 08 Aug 2013 09:03:54 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Ok, it stops working on Youtube again. Once again see "waiting for media plugin"

Anonymous
Thu 08 Aug 2013 08:10:17 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi,

Today mysteriously Youtube works again, it might have been a temporary glitch of the site

But still no luck with Vimeo, still get the "waiting for video plugin" error

Anonymous
Thu 08 Aug 2013 07:27:49 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi, can't upload the debug log
It says "upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters."  Try again with a different Youtube video (and rev 417)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWO3zKqm_KI


(file #28795, file #28796)

Anonymous
Thu 08 Aug 2013 07:18:26 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

It seems that Firefox has changed something but somehow it only affects LM on two sites (as far as I know)

LM has stopped working on Youtube and Vimeo. Go to a random video on these sites and LM would load but stuck in "waiting for video plugin" if flash is enabled, there is just a blackbox otherwise.

Tested on other sites (dailymotion, ted.com, wimp.com) and they all work. I have tried using both totem and gecko-mplayer as the backend and the results are the same.

I have tested with both LM rev 415 and rev 417 with same results, the debug logs are from rev 415

The Youtube link used for the test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAEkuVgt6Aw Vimeo is just the random video featured on the front page.

OS is Ubuntu, this apparently happens after upgrading to Firefox 23.On another partition with Fedora Firefox still at version 22 and both sites work fine just as it was in Ubuntu before the upgrade (aside from bug #39402)

Aditional info which may be helpful:

Viewtube has stopped working on Viemo and Youtube as well and only for FF23.

LM (and Viewtube) still works on Youtube on Chrome, (it never works on Vimeo anyway as Totem can't play vimeo and gecko-mediaplayer doesn't work in Chrome)

Smplayer's Youtube player still works.

Thanks a lot!

Anonymous

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

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file #28949:  bug-39726.png added by valkov (38KiB - image/png)
file #28795:  vimeo added by None (3KiB - application/octet-stream)
file #28796:  youtube added by None (32KiB - application/octet-stream)
file #28794:  vimeo added by None (3KiB - application/octet-stream)
file #28792:  vimeo added by None (3KiB - application/octet-stream)
file #28793:  youtube added by None (47KiB - application/octet-stream)

 

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    2013-08-31 valkov StatusWorks For Me Fixed
    2013-08-28 valkov Attached File- Added bug-39726.png, #28949
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    2013-08-20 valkov StatusNone Confirmed
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