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[François Marier <francois@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah sounds like removing httpswwwroot is the solution.

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: mahara
    Milestone: None => 1.4.0

** Visibility changed to: Public

** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646713

Title:
  js config.wwwroot ignores httpswwwroot

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Originally reported in http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=1746

If wwwroot and httpswwwroot are both set and they're set differently, then users accessing mahara over https won't be able to retrieve various things - e.g. help snippets.
If the user is coming over https, and httpswwwroot is set, we should be using that instead of the wwwroot.
If they use the wwwroot, then browsers see this as XSS and block various things - e.g. help files.

This is *only* a problem when visiting over https and the wwwroot is set to http. The only place I can see where we actively pass users from http to https is the account settings page. That said, users can visit the httpswwwroot instead of the wwwroot and will see this on any page that they visit (until they click a link that is...).

I've marked this a security bug for the moment until someone else has had a look.
I think we may need to have more of a review of this - the ajaxlogin also uses config.wwwroot regardless of the setting of httpswwwroot.

Andrew