Request storage access in state partitioned contexts

[matheus23]

TODO: Test this.

A user on discord told us he got this error: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/Storage_Access_Policy/Errors/CookiePartitionedForeign

To reproduce this issue, we can use certain versions of firefox:

State Partitioning is currently turned on by default in the Firefox Nightly channel. A subset of the state partitioning efforts (namely network partitioning) has been enabled by default in the release channel of Firefox since version 85.

In the same document, there's also a debugging section with helpful info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/State_Partitioning#debugging

[matheus23]

Really hard for me to test this. According to the debugging section, I disabled all redirect heuristics and enabled state partitioning by setting

• privacy.restrict3rdpartystorage.heuristic.recently_visited to false
• privacy.restrict3rdpartystorage.heuristic.redirect to false
• network.cookie.cookieBehavior to 5

But I'm still able to log into the auth lobby just fine...

The good news is: I also tested the auth lobby with this PR and it doesN't seem to break anything. 😅

I'll try another test with brave next

[matheus23]

Also working in brave.

I've added some logging to see whether state partitioning stuff is triggered, but as it seems, it isn't (in brave). Not sure what's going on.

In firefox, it detects state partitioning support, but it already has access (despite the settings I mentioned in my last post).

If anyone has some ideas how to test this, feel free to tell them.

Otherwise, I'm fairly sure the code won't break anything and can be merged.

[icidasset]

It doesn't look like this is implemented yet in Brave is it? Regarding Firefox, maybe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/StorageManager/persist has something to do with it? Which we call on the lobby side when authorising apps. Or maybe it just grants access automatically because you did so in the past? (even if you revoked access later on)

[matheus23]

It doesn't look like this is implemented yet in Brave is it?

Yeah right, requestStorageAccess isn't there in brave. I can't find anything about brave and state partitioning online, and it runs fine for me, even with the shield enabled. We've had bug reports from other people who were using brave with the shield up, though. Not sure what's up with that.

Regarding Firefox, maybe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/StorageManager/persist has something to do with it?

Maybe? 🤷‍♂️

Or maybe it just grants access automatically because you did so in the past?

Also possible :/ I've tried turn off everything as described in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/State_Partitioning#debugging

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Should we merge this?

If we don't, then here's a proposal: Let's publish this to another subdomain on production. And if someone comes to us with a state-partitioning issue (and we can't reproduce it), we can send them over to the 'alternative' auth lobby that contains this PR and they check whether it works?
Although we'd also need to publish an app that is configured to the right lobby for that to work.

[icidasset]

Merge it 👍

[matheus23]

I've kept the state partitioning settings in my firefox. Now I'm getting this (only on staging!):

Can publish the current version to staging and see whether that is doing something?

[icidasset]

@matheus23 Deployed to staging 🚢

[matheus23]

Ok so this PR didn't help :(

Notice this message:

document.requestStorageAccess() may only be requested from inside a short running user-generated event handler.

But that'd mean a different UI flow completely: We'd have to have a button or something included in the iframe. :/ (and the iframe would have to be visible in the app & the user needs to interact with it!)