Bug#561927: iceweasel: Can Iceweasel pretend to be Firefox to services such as safebrowsing ?

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:46:08AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:28:18AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 3.5.6-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: This should be resolved before release
> > 
> > Iceweasel current replaces firefox with iceweasel in various service urls
> > in configuration. Some other service urls such as safebrowsing have not been
> > addressed yet, leading to bugs such as #518357.
> > 
> > The question is whether we can have iceweasel pretend to be firefox to such
> > services, which are related to agreements between MoCo and third parties.
> 
> So far, the answer to this question is near "probably not". I now have
> addresses to contact @google wrt the safebrowsing service to have
> possibly get an agreement in the best case, or at least, a definite answer.

I haven't updated for a while, but the answer from the contact I had
@google is not definite yet. Technically, they can allow a different
client id, or maybe the firefox one would be enough, I don't know yet
which one would be best for them. But the concern about the service
itself is, I think, resolved. We are supposed to use the
googpub-phish-shavar database instead of goog-phish-shavar, which I'll
be changing in next iceweasel upload. I think this will be already enough
to close the bug here. The next adjustments are either on google end or
on ours, and will address bug #518357.

Mike