most, or all, searches of room content fail (with CORS-related errors)

[grahamperrin]

I see leak-oriented #5373 and #5374 and more recent #4541 … I find a more general problem; searches no longer succeed.

(I can't recall when I last had a search result.)

[grahamperrin]

Comparative test results

Android 6.0.1, Riot.im 0.7.03 (G-da8a7535b)

1. sought mentioned in the Riot room
2. sought GELI in #freebsd on IRC
3. sought quantum in #firefox on moznet

Three of three searches succeeded.

https://riot.im/develop/ in SeaMonkey 2.49.1

1. tab opened by a Control-Click on my bookmarks toolbar bookmark for https://riot.im/develop/
2. whilst waiting for the usual page to load (asynchronous progress indicator, spinning occasionally), the light theme changes to dark (my preference) with a coincidental change of the URL to https://riot.im/develop/#/room/#designUX:matrix.org

– so there's some parallel with an adjacent bug report by me, although I can't tell whether it's coincidence or a direct relationship between the two:

• joined designUX long ago, I can no longer get in · Issue #5518 · vector-im/riot-web

This apparent redirect is novel, I'll test in a third browser to tell whether anything like it can be reproduced. (Too soon to raise a separate issue, or change the title of this one …)

[grahamperrin]

Briefly:

• a handful of rough notes at https://matrix.to/#/!DgvjtOljKujDBrxyHk:matrix.org/$15098836412065611Gngpt:matrix.org
• on this FreeBSD-based desktop, I'm now temporarily using Chromium 61.0.3163.100 (Developer Build) (64-bit), not my preferred browser but I'm happy enough
• I'm resisting the temptation to clear cookies etc. from the Firefox and SeaMonkey environments – just in case someone at Riot and/or Matrix has a keen interest in how things might have got in this state.

[grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook8570p-freebsd] ~% uname -v
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r320869: Mon Jul 10 13:57:55 UTC 2017     [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
[grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook8570p-freebsd] ~% pkg info firefox | grep -i version
Version        : 56.0.2_6,1
[grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook8570p-freebsd] ~% pkg info seamonkey | grep Version
Version        : 2.49.1_4
[grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook8570p-freebsd] ~% 

Comparative test results

Chromium

1. sought mention in https://riot.im/app/#/room/#riot:matrix.org – fail
2. sought mentioned in the same room – success
3. sought GELI in https://riot.im/app/#/room/#freenode_#freebsd:matrix.org – success (~293 results)
4. sought quantum in https://riot.im/app/#/room/#mozilla_#firefox:matrix.org – success (~238 results) and whilst awaiting those results in a background tab in (KDE Plasma 5) virtual desktop 4 of 12, I used virtual desktop 5 to launch Firefox 56.0.2, await load of extensions in the initial window, check for updates, decline the update to Diigo Toolbar, and begin appending a session with probably twelve-hundred-and-something tabs across thirteen windows (ignoring the first)
5. sought Philips in https://riot.im/app/#/room/#freenode_#kde-freebsd:matrix.org and whilst awaiting results (and whilst Firefox was busy loading stuff), Control-Page Down in Chromium to put the 'searching' tab to the background, tappity tappity type and Control-Page Up and: success.

[grahamperrin]

Chromium

• sought azaki linux in https://riot.im/app/#/room/#mozilla_#firefox:matrix.org – fail

– 2017-11-05 ~14:55

[grahamperrin]

The search that failed at #5517 (comment) above now succeeds,and the results appeared reasonably quickly.

Re: #5666 (comment) as we have closure there, so I'm closing here.