[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 147 Set network.http.sendRefererHeader to 2 on browser config

[Rob Crittenden]

Petr Vobornik wrote:
> IPA web UI isn't functional when browser doesn't send http headers.
>
> This patch adds a functionality which sets Firefox
> network.http.sendRefererHeader configuration option to value '2' which
> enables it.
>
> Possible values: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendRefererHeader
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2778

Should we also add a message when referer is missing to check this 
setting in about:config?

>
> I was also thinking about upgrading the configure.jar. We had a ticket
> for it, which ended by documenting the steps.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2311
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/FreeIPA_Guide/upgrading.html#ticket-delegation
>
>
> I think the documentation is wrong. In it we are rebuilding the .jar
> from /usr/share/ipa/html/preferences.html, this file is created on
> server install and it is never updated therefore the .jar won't be
> updated. The updated file is its template (the one changed in this
> patch). The template output is created in
> httpinstance.__setup_autoconfig() call.
>
> For my development purposes I took this code and created a script which
> rebuilds the .jar file (attached). Do we want to use it?

Yes, I think it is worth having this somewhere, even if just on the wiki.

rob