109872 - Line break in the source is recognized as a termination for URL upon drag and drop

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect, P5)

Description

[hirata masakazu]

2001110612 trunk for MacOS9.x
Have two browser windows open.
Goto URL.
Try to drag and drop the sixth link from the top in the page onto another window.
Result:"http://www1.rocketbbs.co" can not be found.
If you click the link instead of D&D, the correct URL, 
http://www1.rocketbbs.com/bc/pt.cgi?room=moto00
loads in a new window.
This is because the source is written as:
<a href="http://www1.rocketbbs.co
m/bc/pt.cgi?room=moto00" target="main">
Thus, the line break in this link is translated into a true termination for this
URL when D&D'ed. Also, if you D&D into an input area of a form, the D&D'ed text
becomes:
http://www1.rocketbbs.co
m/bc/pt.cgi?room=moto00

Comment 1

[hirata masakazu]

This D&D used to work, so adding regression KW.

Comment 2

[hirata masakazu]

This misinterpretation of URL also affects marking of Visited Link:
this link in the URL never gets highlighted as a visited link after you have
visited the link.
Therefore, there seem to be two different ways of interpreting the same URL in a
source.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Just a quick note.  The URL in the source is invalid.  We special-case it for
purposes of following the link because it was a common enough problem to warrant
such special-casing....

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 137611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Terri Preston]

qa contact -> pmac

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug hasen't been touched for years and is clearly unowned. Moving back to default assignee/QA so that people, who are watching those can accurately triage this bug.

Also resetting Priority, Target Milestone, Status Whiteboard and Status.

Comment 8

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.