60939 - [CBX]SPACE in OPTION VALUE= tag makes form fail

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Bitmead]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001119
BuildID:    2000111908

If you have an OPTION tag inside of a SELECT in a form,
and if the VALUE="foobar    " has spaces in it, then
the browser doesn't appear to return any value for that form
element. This makes certain web pages die a horrible death. (Yes there are good
reasons to have a space in the VALUE attribute.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Create a form with a select and option...
<SELECT>
<OPTION VALUE="foobar   ">FOOBAR</OPTION>
</SELECT>
(I am using a FORM with POST method if that matters)
Now in the cgi or servlet (I'm using java servlet) the form element will not be
in the request attributes. But if I use IE it will all be fine. If I take out
the spaces it will be there. (But due to the application, we need the spaces there).

Actual Results:  Servlet crashes due to form element not existing.

Expected Results:  Return the value for the selected element.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 60940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Um...  The <select> needs a name.  Once I add one, the form submits with no
problems and I see a value on the server end.  linux build 2000-11-19-21.

Do you still see the problem after adding a name attribute to the <select>

If so, could you attach a testcase to this bug?

Comment 3

[rods (gone)]

Yes, a name is required. Works this way in 4.x

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Chris, do you still see a bug here after adding a name for the select?

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

marking invalid unless we hear back from the reporter.

Comment 6

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying