1536391 - Base URL is ignored when copy/open links in HTML attributes

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect, P3)

Description

[Lorenzo Stanco]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open the inspector on a web page with a <base href> that modifies the default base URL of the document. Now pick, for example, an <img src> with an URL relative to the base: middle-click or right-click the URL and choose to open in a new tab or copy in the clipboard.

Actual results:

The URL that is opened or copied is incorrect, since is created by merging the document URL and the HTML attribute, ignoring the overridden base URL.

Expected results:

The URL should have been created by merging the correct base URL and the relative URL in the HTML attribute.

Comment 1

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

Hi Lorenzo, thanks for filing.
Would you mind providing a test case (a sample HTML page or URL) to reproduce this problem?

Comment 2

[Lorenzo Stanco]

Attachment: byzanz-record.gif

Comment 3

[Lorenzo Stanco]

(In reply to Patrick Brosset <:pbro> from comment #1)

Would you mind providing a test case (a sample HTML page or URL) to reproduce this problem?

Sure, here it is: https://www.lorenzostanco.com/stack/ffbug2.html

I attached a GIF showing the incorrect behaviour (Italian locale, but that's it).

Comment 4

[Razvan Caliman [:rcaliman]]

Seems like the URL resolver in the Inspector actor should make use of document.baseURI instead of document.location.href.