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0002080Composrcorepublic2021-03-15 16:54
ReporterChris GrahamAssigned To 
SeverityFeature-request 
Status non-assignedResolutionopen 
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Summary0002080: Hide geolocation features on non-SSL for some browsers
DescriptionGoogle has deprecated geolocation outside SSL. Very long discussion:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/2LXKVWYkOus%5B151-175%5D

It's not turned off yet, may not be for years, but it will be at some point.

We need to be able to do {$BROWSER_MATCHES,geolocation_available} which would check to see if we can do it, before enabling UI for it. It would look at the browser and look to see if it is SSL.

We need to document this somewhere also.
Additional InformationNo action yet, until Google really does something. Still actively being discussed.
TagsType: Standards compliance
Time estimation (hours)5
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Chris Graham

2021-03-15 16:54

administrator   ~0007007

Removed way back now in the two main browser engines...

Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072859
Chrome: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=561641

So if we implement this we don't need to use BROWSER_MATCHES at all, we just assume only https can do geolocation.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2016-12-08 12:17 Chris Graham Tag Attached: Type: Standards compliance
2021-03-15 16:54 Chris Graham Note Added: 0007007