Google Hangouts app: a case of sub_frame created without a root frame

[gorhill]

HTTPSB always expects that a tab is always bound to a root frame. However, it appears that when user install the Google Hangouts app, this one will create a tab with a sub_frame in it, with no root frame.

Have to find a way to take care of that sort of unexpected case.

[gorhill]

Apparently I will have to implement a heuristic.

If a sub_frame is requested while no page stats store can be found for the tab id, this is an app. Create a page stats store for this app, than assign true to this pageStats.ignore -- because of HTTPSB's policy to not interfere with apps or extensions.

[attila-lendvai]

what's the situation these days, should hangouts work with httpsb?

i can only make it work by completely disabling httpsb. tried to look at the global settings, but couldn't see anything blocked that i could allow for hangouts to work.

and pointers that i should read? this is the single match when searching for httpsb + hangouts.

[gorhill]

I will look into this. Just to be sure, Hangout is the extension one installs from the store, right?

Note that with the latest version of chromium (and derivatives probably), I have noted more requests which are improperly marked as behind-the-scene by the browser, so often you may need to go to the behind the scene matrix and enable from there whatever requests is blocked.

[attila-lendvai]

yes, i meant google hangout as installed from the extension store (and of course i also have the linux dpkg's installed that are needed by the chrome plugin).

i'm using chromium Version 32.0.1700.123 Debian 7.4 (248368) on debian x64.

i've looked at the chromium-behind-the-scene but there pretty much everything was green except a couple of obvious entries (google analytics and csi.gstatic.com).

[gorhill]

Ok, found the problem. Looking into a fix, hopefully for today.

Thanks for having reported the issue, from what I can tell this has been broken since a while now.

For the record, it's the sandbox directive added to the sub_frame used by Hangout which disables javascript for the gadget. This code is old and it needs revision to bring it up to date.