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Status: Archived
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Closed: Sep 2016
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Clicking a mailto link closes active websockets

Reported by philip.w...@googlemail.com, May 25 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.97 Safari/537.36

Example URL:

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Click on a mailto: link on a page that has an open websocket 

What is the expected behavior?
Websocket to remain open, handler for mailto link to deal with the email. For example, external email application

What went wrong?
Websocket is closed

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 48.0.2564.97  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29186154/chrome-clicking-mailto-links-closes-websocket-connection for reports of the issue
 
Components: Blink>Network>WebSockets

Comment 2 by mmenke@chromium.org, May 27 2016

Components: -Internals>Network
Components: Blink>HTML>A
Not reproducible on Windows + Thunderbird.
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Why? A mailto link typically opens a new tab or a separate application
entirely. It's absurd that you have to write a horrible hack in order to
work around this.
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Status: Unconfirmed (was: WontFix)
Reopen

Could you tell me how to reproduce your issue?

Comment 7 by tkent@chromium.org, Aug 19 2016

Components: -Blink>HTML>A
Project Member

Comment 8 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Sep 18 2016

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
No feedback was received in the last 30 days from reporter "philip.whitehouse@googlemail.com", so archiving this. Please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

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