209272 - Absolute URI stylesheets not loaded.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: XSLT, defect)

Description

[Luke Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030508

If the <?xml-stylesheet tag's href contains an absolute URI, the stylesheet will
not be loaded and the text of the XML displayed as though no stylesheet is present.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an XSL stylesheet and XML instance
2. Insert PI of form <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="http://absolute/path/to/stylesheet.xml" ?>
3. Open the XML document in Mozilla.

Actual Results:  
The text of the XML is shown on screen.

Expected Results:  
The stylesheet be loaded, and the XML document processed against the stylesheet.

This appears to be a regression, as absolute URIs worked under Mozilla/5.0 (X11;
U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211.

Comment 1

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

note that XSLT-stylesheets are only allowed to be loaded from the same server
(although it should of course not matter weather you use an absolute or relative
url to it). Is that what is happening? If not, please provide a testcase

Comment 2

[Luke Ross]

After some checking, we worked out that this was because of the stylesheet
accessing the same host through a hostname alias, so Mozilla deemed it to be a
different host and so didn't load the stylesheey.

Comment 3

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

cool