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Mapbox tiles don't load (caching)

See original GitHub issue

Description

Sites using mapbox don’t load tiles on reoccurring visits. This problem occurs only in Brave.

Steps to Reproduce

Go to https://travelfeed.io/map - the tiles load
Revisit a few days later - the tiles are blank, the network request to https://api.mapbox.com/v4/mapbox.mapbox-terrain-v2,mapbox.mapbox-streets-v7.json... returns 403 Forbidden (from ServiceWorker) and 403 Forbidden (from disk cache)

Actual result:

Tiles don’t load

Expected result:

Tiles load

Reproduces how often:

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

0.70.123 Chromium: 78.0.3904.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Version/Channel Information:

All Brave desktop versions seem to be affected

Other Additional Information:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? No
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? No

Miscellaneous Information:

Brave mobile (android) is not affected

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:6

Top GitHub Comments

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tiotdevcommented, Dec 19, 2019

When analysing the requests in Chrome vs Brave, I found that Brave spoofs the referrer for some requests, changing it to “api.mapbox.com”. Adding this to the whitelisted domains for my mapbox API key did the trick, but it means that I have to expose my API key to other domains than my own. This weird behaviour of Brave should be changed.

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ryanbrcommented, Jun 8, 2020

@tiotdev Would this patch https://github.com/brave/referrer-whitelist/pull/33 help here. No security issues, just all standard referrers through.