119014 - Every cookie reports the same expire date/time

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 113602

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Linux 2002010906:

While having this report new bug form open (likely any webform will do):

1) Edit > Prefs > privacy&security > Cookies > View stored cookies
2) Browse through cookie list and note a few cookies with different expire times
3) Highlight an expire date time and copy (CTRL+C) it to the clipboard
4) Click directly onto a textarea such as the comments box on a bug form (don't
   close the cookie manager).
5) You can't type, but you can paste the expire date you just coped.  Paste it.
6) Click back to the Cookies Manager and note now that every cookie has the
   expire time.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

I was about to dismiss this as a report from a confused reporter, until I tried 
it and indeed was able to reproduce.  Did so on an NT platform, so I'm updating 
OS from linux to all.

Don't quite understand the comment in step 5 ("you can't type but you can 
paste").  I certainly can type or paste anything I want into the field on the 
form.  But that is not relevant to the bug report.

Also bug has nothing to do with the pasting done in step 5.  As soon as you do 
the copy, if you select any other cookie, the corresponding field for that 
cookie will have the value that you copied onto the clipboard.

Also but is not restricted to date field.  Copying any other cookie field will 
give the same duplicated results.

Comment 2

[Stephen P. Morse]

Simplified steps to reproduce.

0. Do some surfing so that you will have cookies in your cookie list
1. Open cookie manager dialog
2. Select any cookie
3. Select and copy (ctl-c) the value of any field in the cookies property
4. Select any other cookie

Note the value of the corresponding field for that cookie has the same value as 
the one you copied.

What a wonderful magic trick. ;-)

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Heh, sorry for the messy report.  Yes I was a confused reporter at the time and
only noticed this while filing bug 119013.

Re: comment 5, I am prohibited from typing anything into <textarea>s or <input>s
while the Cookie Manager is open though it is quite irrelevant to this bug.  I
was in a hurry at the time of filing and didn't think really.  Next time I'll
wait until after lunch to file :)

Thanks for the reduced steps!

Comment 4

[Stephen P. Morse]

OK, I thought this sounded familiar.  Just found the dup.

So the ctl-C in step 3 was not important.  Typing any character would 
demonstrate the problem.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113602 ***

Comment 5

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Bah.  I queried and of course that wouldn't show up.  I wasn't looking for
anything close to that, but yes it is a dupe.

Comment 6

[Stephen P. Morse]

My query was a bit smarter since it sounded familiar to me and I recalled that 
it might have to do with the read-only field.  So I searched for reports having 
the words "cookie" and "read-only" in the comments.  Got only a couple of 
matches and them saw it immediately.