premium content under dowjones not viewable until brave is restarted

[kjozwiak]

Description

Dowjones promotion isn't working correctly under both https://www.barrons.com/ and https://www.marketwatch.com/. Instead of being able to access the premium content

Barrons:

Marketwatch:

Using the same accounts under muon, viewing the premium content works as expected. You'll also noticed that b-c is missing the X-Brave-Partner: dowjones header which muon has. I'm assuming that's the reason this isn't working under b-c as Dowjones expects the above header.

@GeetaSarvadnya reproduced this under Win 10 x64 as well.

Steps to Reproduce

1. download the latest brave and rename the executable to either Brave-Browser-dowjones-barrons or Brave-Browser-dowjones-marketwatch
2. once the promotion tab opens, claim the dowjones promotion by creating an account
3. once the account as been created, log into the respectable site and attempt to view the premium content. On Barrons, this is the Magazine section. On MarketWatch, it's the Revolution Investing content.

Actual result:

Expected result:

Reproduces how often:

100% reproducible using the STR mentioned above.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	0.56.8 Chromium: 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	0f6ce0b0cd63a12cb4eccea3637b1bc9a29148d9-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#1039}
OS	Mac OS X

Reproducible on current release:

• Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds?

Haven't attempted the above under beta or dev but I'm assuming the same issue affects all three channels.

Website problems only:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?

I tried the above with shields enabled and disabled and received the same results.

Additional Information

• macOS 10.14 x64 - Reproduced by @kjozwiak
• Win 10 x64 - Reproduced by @GeetaSarvadnya

CCing @aekeus @davidtemkin @mandar-brave

[emerick]

@kjozwiak @GeetaSarvadnya I suspect this may require a restart of Brave (which we can certainly address). Could either of you confirm if this starts to work after a restart?

[srirambv]

I could see the header after restart and page reload

[kjozwiak]

@emerick yup, looks like restarting did the trick 👍 Probably should have tried this originally but figured it wasn't working as muon works without needing a restart. We should definitely fix this so it works without needing a restart as it's not obvious to users that a restart is required to view the paywalled content. I'll rename the issue so it's more clear.

Working on macOS 10.14 x64 with 0.56.9 Chromium: 70.0.3538.77 after restarting:

[emerick]

OK, sounds good.

[davidtemkin]

@emerick can you make it so a restart is not required?

[emerick]

@davidtemkin Yes definitely, investigating now.

[davidtemkin]

great! thank you.

[kjozwiak]

Went through verification using the following build under macOS 10.14 x64 - PASSED

Brave	0.57.12 Chromium: 71.0.3578.75 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	06ef00b5279f93f8e0c1e73acedd49d7dcc09767-refs/branch-heads/3578@{#836}
OS	Mac OS X

• went through both MW & Barrons and ensured that you can # and view the premium content without needing to restart
• ensured that x-brave-partner: dowjones is also being sent in the headers

Verification passed on

Brave	0.57.12 Chromium: 71.0.3578.75 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	06ef00b5279f93f8e0c1e73acedd49d7dcc09767-refs/branch-heads/3578@{#836}
OS	Windows

• went through both MW & Barrons and ensured that you can # and view the premium content without needing to restart
• ensured that x-brave-partner: dowjones is also being sent in the headers