BUG: Endless network requests and rapid flickering of page contents on watchtower web pages

jadeorchard

The watchtower website is referencing images on a non-existent cloudfront domain, and has javascript that attempts to endlessly load the bad URL. In Firefox Mac (at least), this also causes a rapid flickering of the page contents.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Follow a link from the Mac app (or, presumably from any platform) to view more details on why watchtower is reporting a site as vulnerable
(for example, https://watchtower.agilebits.com/check?h=agilebits.com)

Note that:

• The image positioned to the left of the heading listing the domain name is being requested from a cloudfront sub-domain: https://d2x2f6qan2kccj.cloudfront.net/
• That sub-domain has no DNS records.
• The img element has an "onerror" attribute that replaces the img's src attribute with the same URL (with the bad cloudfront domain)
• The replaced src URL triggers the onerror handler again. This is an infinite loop, causing ~1000 network requests per second as long as that page is open in a browser window.

P.S. You might consider adding a category to your forums for issues/questions re. your websites (app, KB, watchtower, etc.)

Pilar

Hi @jadeorchard

Thank you for alerting us about this issue, I've tested it on Firefox, Chrome and Safari and while they all handle it differently the problem appears on all of them, Firefox making me dizzy :dizzy: I've moved your post to our Lounge category as it seems to fit best here, I hope you don't mind! This category is pretty good for what you mention on your P.S., it helps us talk about all the things around 1Password :chuffed: We'll take a look into this and hope to have it fixed soon!

ref: WT-32

jadeorchard

Hi Pilar,

Glad to be of help; Since Firefox is my default browser, and I'm going through hundreds of records (after an import) in watchtower, I've been feeling dizzy too. ;)

Cheers,
David

sjk

You're welcome, David! Hard to imagine it not making anyone dizzy. :dizzy:

acdha

I just noticed the same problem this morning – e.g. https://watchtower.agilebits.com/check?h=capitalbikeshare.com

AGAlumB

Thanks for letting us know. I'm not seeing it here myself, but I know others have been able to reproduce it, so hopefully we can find a solution. :blush: