157987 - URL: Line-ended links in page will include current page in their link

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 102312

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1)
Gecko/20020717 Netscape/7.0
BuildID:    7-17-trunk

Line-ended links in source will include current page in their link.

In source like this:

<a HREF="htt
p://www.oneworldalliance.com/">, the link somehow gets parsed as including the
current document (so, hosted on sedonner.tripod.com, it gets,
'http://sedonner.tripod.com/http://www.oneworldalliance.com/', instead of the
expected 'http://www.oneworldalliance.com'.

BTW, this isn't my own freaky testcase - I found this on http://www.aa.com, all
over the place.  Look at their footer, bottom of the page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load http://sedonner.tripod.com/aatest.html
2. Mouseover or click on the OneWorld image.
3.

Actual Results:  The URL gets parsed as being:
'http://sedonner.tripod.com/http://www.oneworldalliance.com/'

Expected Results:  The URL should be as stated in the source:
'<a HREF="http://www.oneworldalliance.com/">'

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Spaces are significant in HTML CDATA attributes (such as href), so this is
techevang for www.aa.com eventually. I'll hand this to the networking people
first, to figure out why the URL gets parsed that way...it looks like it's being
interpreted as a relative URL, but I don't know why the whole thing (including
leading htt) would get reassembled.

Comment 2

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I should note that every other browser except us parses this correctly (not that
I'm defending this shoddy HTML).

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102312 ***

Comment 4

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verified dup.  thanks for the triage, darin.