----- Original Message -----

> From: fhw...@gmail.com
> To: mozilla-dev-security-pol...@lists.mozilla.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 August, 2014 12:41:04 AM
> Subject: Q: mixed http/https content

> What are the current rules or algorithms in place when dealing with some
> mixture of http and https content in Firefox?

> A case I'm thinking about is a drive-by download situation. If the main page
> is loaded ‎by https but there are subsequent requests for files (images, js,
> css, fonts, iframes, etc.) or Ajax calls to be made that are only http, will
> Firefox allow them? Note that I don't care about the form cases where I load
> the form html using https but submit the form data via http. I care about
> just the files and content.

Firefox allows download of only Images over http, all other methods are 
blocked, you can test this here: 
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html 
You can configure it to also disallow http images in https context 
(security.mixed_content.block_display_content) 

-- 
Regards, 
Hubert Kario 
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