453815 - Autocomplete with maxlength

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 444728

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[geetar]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.52 (Windows NT 5.1; U; pl)
Build Identifier: 3.0.1

Let's create a textbox and enter a text there with length of e.g. 255 chars.
Firefox remembers this form data.
Let's then set the maxlength of the textbox to e.g. 125 chars.
Using autocomplete functionality I am still able to enter those 255 chars into textbox, which is wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Steps are in the details section, just create a html page for yourself.
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Actual Results:  
In my application too long text was submitted to DB and query crashed.

Expected Results:  
Do not let me enter too long text.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

> In my application too long text was submitted to DB and query crashed.

You need to do server-side checks too, so malicious users (who might use modified web browsers) can't screw up your database...

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup