Relationship Request Bug
Giza,
Someone added me as a buddy on here and so I have this little white bar at the top of my screen telling me. If I try and click 'approve', a dialog pops up with a little spinner that says form loading and... that's it. Tried it on three different machines, chrome/firefox/IE and on two different internet connections. No dice.
Just wanted to let you know!
That's just a cheap way to get people to add you to their buddy lists. Shame on you!
Will do, and no, it hasn't gone through and the bar won't go away.
Okay, I was able to reproduce it, and fixed the issue.
As I suspected, the "relationships" page was HTTP, and the URL that it was trying to communicate with via AJAX was HTTPS. Seems reasonable enough, but it turns out that if a browser allowed encrypted content to be loaded via AJAX (on an unencrypted page), it puts the user at risk of a "session renegotiation attack".
More info on why FireFox (and other browsers) acted the way they did can be found at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security:Renegotiation.
The fix, BTW, was for me to tweak the settings from the Securepages module to have the relationships page loaded securely. A page loaded via SSL making an AJAX call to SSL content on the same domain is not an issue at all. 
Worked flawlessly, and my other request went through, too.
Say, I was wondering just what all you can do with someone signed up as a buddy. I guess it just makes it easier to find the user if you want to track them or pm them? On another forum I'm on, I get a notice every time a "buddy" makes a post, but this doesn't happen here.
Thanks!
I think it might be a byproduct of the SSL I recently enabled on user pages.
But I'll need to reproduce it, first. Since I'm not currently on your buddy list, can you add me so I can get the request and try to reproduce the issue?
Also, did the buddy request go through successfully even though things appeared to hang on you rbrowser?
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