214475 - Mozilla interprets a -- (two dashes in a row) inside of a comment or an include improperly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicholas A. Wilson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030626 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030626 Mozilla Firebird/0.6   (also tried with Linux, Win 98 and Win2k)

While updating our top level page, we found out that if a double hyphen (--) is
used within a ssi style comment or ssi that it is misinterpreted by mozilla and
the close may not be read properly, leaving parts or all of the page not displayed.
Example:
<!-- V. 3: August 2000 by University Relations; designer--developer: Bennet
George -->
The double dash between designer and developer caused the comment to not close
properly.
For the time being we found that we can avoid it simply by using a single
hyphen. The problem does not occur in opera, msie, or most of the other browsers
we tested with and does comply to XML standards.

I do not remember if we had spaces on either side of the hyphens or not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Browser displayed only a small portion of the page

Expected Results:  
Browser should have interpreted the --> as the end of the comment, it did not

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214476 ***