138790 - Spurious detection of end-of-comment in initial layout.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 137628

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Peter B. West]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020419
BuildID:    2002041910

A &gt; within the content of a comment, within the <head/> of an XHTML document
is mis-interpreted as the end of the comment.  Subsequent comment text is
rendered as text.  When the page is replaced and restored using the Back button,
the page is rendered correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the nominated URL
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Actual Results:  Text of the comment following the first &gt; is rendered to the
page in the first instance.  (Note also the incompletely rendered DSTC logo.)

Expected Results:  No text of the comment is rendered.

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

page doesn't load. And I can't reproduce it with a selfmade file..

Comment 2

[Peter B. West]

Note that the URL includes aarnet, i.e., double-a.  The comment includes strings
of underlines, not hyphens.  This seems to be the most unusual feature of the
comment,

Comment 3

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->Parser. heikki?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

no packets get through to mirror.aarnet.edu.au from here (as shown by
traceroute).  They die somewhere in the depths of attbb.net

Peter, could you possibly attach the patch to this bug?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

er, "page", not "patch"

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

aha.  we already have a bug on this...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137628 ***

Comment 7

[Wesha]

v.