Bug 17965

Summary:	(overcomeable) problems with https://gmail.com
Product:	Branch 4.1	Reporter:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component:	dillo	Assignee:	Nikolay A. Fetisov <naf>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	qa-4.1 <qa-4.1>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://gmail.com

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-11-21 18:38:16 MSK

dillo-0.8.6-alt3.M41.1

I wanted to open https://gmail.com . 

1st attempt: I enter the username&password, then dillo doesn't open the mailbox (some error).

I close dillo, start dillo, try it again:

2nd attempt: (the username&password have already been saved) it tries to do it, but writes in the status bar that a redirect loop was detected. And shows nothing.

3rd attempt: finally, it shows some words (suggestion to use the simple HTML view), and after clicking on the simple HTML option, it finally is able to show and work with the mailbox.

Expected: it can open https://gmail.com on the 1st attempt.

Comment 1 Nikolay A. Fetisov 2008-11-21 22:09:31 MSK

No, it can't.

Dillo is a simple and minimalistic web browser, it is small and fast - but it does't support JavaScript, Flash, CSS and so on. Even features like UTF-8, SSL and HTTP auth are added by third-party patches.

Therefore dillo could't be used for standart GMail or similar high-interactive web sites. Use JavaScript enabled browsers for such applications.

GMail also provides HTML-only web interface. That is what You get at last. After login GMail tries to redirect You to HTML-only pages but did it via <META REFRESH=""> tag in HTML code. This tag is non-standart, http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html part 7.4.4 says about it:
"Some user agents support the use of META to refresh the current page after a specified number of seconds, with the option of replacing it by a different URI. Authors should not use this technique to forward users to different pages, as this makes the page inaccessible to some users. Instead, automatic page forwarding should be done using server-side redirects."
Dillo does not support META REDIRECT tag. So redirection failed - with corresponding error messages.
On next try You are already logged in - via cockies, and GMain redirects You properly via HTTP protocol. So that is GMail need to be fixed, not dillo.

Comment 2 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-12-24 21:35:57 MSK

Thank you for the answer! Now I see.

(In reply to comment #1)

> Dillo does not support META REDIRECT tag. So redirection failed - with corresponding error messages.