<div dir="ltr"><div>Some of the original requests for the pref to disable the prompt had come from people debugging mobile devices, where the overhead is not just moving the cursor on the screen, but leaving the computer and picking up the phone or tablet to tap on. I don't know how important that use case still is though.<br><br></div>Panos<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Brian Grinstead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bgrinstead@mozilla.com" target="_blank">bgrinstead@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">No, there’s no informational message shown when the prompt is disabled. Bug 1013379 would be ideal, because then no one would need to flip the prompt pref since local connections wouldn’t require it. At that point we might even be able to remove the prompt pref altogether if we wanted the behavior to be ‘always prompt for remote connections’.<br>
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In the interim I guess we could always show the prompt for non-local connections even if the 'disable prompt' pref is set - I’m not sure off hand how much work that’d be.<br>
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> On Feb 2, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Justin Dolske <<a href="mailto:dolske@mozilla.com">dolske@mozilla.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> When devtools.debugger.prompt-connection is disabled, is there at least an informational message shown? Especially if non-local connections are allowed? This is an enormous footgun if someone was to forget to change back after they're done.<br>
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> (Alternatively, I see 1013379#c18 says there might be a way to do this securely, albeit with a higher initial-setup cost.)<br>
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> Justin<br>
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> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Brian Grinstead <<a href="mailto:bgrinstead@mozilla.com">bgrinstead@mozilla.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hey all,<br>
> In the meeting today I was wrong about non-local debugging connections being accepted without a prompt showing up. By default the debugging server *does not listen at all* for remote connections, as dictated by the `devtools.debugger.force-local`pref (true by default and doesn’t get changed by any UI switches). There’s a note about this here: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Remote_Debugging/Debugging_Firefox_Desktop#Firefox_37_onwards" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Remote_Debugging/Debugging_Firefox_Desktop#Firefox_37_onwards</a>.<br>
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> So when you flip the `devtools.debugger.prompt-connection` pref, the popup dialog will be skipped, but this will only be the case for local connections due to the paragraph above.<br>
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> Sorry for any confusion!<br>
> Brian<br>
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