16175 - Web links get mangled when submitting form at /.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Joseph Elwell]

When trying to submit a form to Slashdot. Web links get mangled. In paticular a
space is added after each open tag "< ". So if you type in:
< A HREF="www.mozilla.org"> Mozilla< /A> is good.

Slashdot receives and displays (after clicking on Preview story):
< A HREF="www.mozilla.org"> Mozilla< /A> is good.

Now, of course this might not make any sense to you because I am using Mozilla
M10 to submit this bug so you might see more than one space in between.
Joseph Elwell.

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

Hey, Akkana ---

Could this be related to an Output bug you're working on, or does it just sound
similar?

Comment 2

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassigning to Kevin.

Comment 3

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Added summary

Comment 4

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Eric, could you take a look at this?

Comment 5

[Akkana Peck]

It may relate to output stuff I've been working on; I've fixed some bugs related
to this recently.  Is this still happening?

Comment 6

[Joseph Elwell]

This bug seems to have gone away. I'm using the nightly build. which I
downloaded 11/5/99 at 12:01 PST. You guys rock!

Comment 7

[Akkana Peck]

I'm going to mark this fixed; there were lots of changes recently in the output
sinks involving output of entities like angle brackets, and I think Eric also
fixed some form submission bugs, and one or both of those must have fixed this.

Comment 8

[cpratt]

I don't see this working in the 1999111016 M11 build under NT. When I enter:
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a>
into the text input area at the URL above, I get:
<ahref="http://www.yahoo.com";Yahoo</a>
after submitting the form. So, I think this hasn't been fixed - or, rather, it's
been replaced by a worse problem.

Comment 9

[Joseph Elwell]

When I enter in <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a>
The preview has a working link to yahoo show up. But the TextArea is showing the
garbage cpratt noticed: <ahref="http://www.yahoo.com";Yahoo!</a>
If I hit Preview again i get: <ahref="http://www.yahoo.com";;Yahoo!=;</a>
And the Yahoo link is gone in the preview. So the data is getting sent to the
server properly this time, however the Textarea is drawing it wrong.

Some Unrelated issues on that page (which may require their own bug notices):
    I noticed View Source doesn't show me anything useful, the TextAreas are
empty despite them actually exisisting. Is View-source hitting the server? and
if it is, is it at least passing the cached parameters?
    Hitting the back button after previewing doesn't do anything. Expected
result: Show the form (blank) form before I hit submit - probably has something
to do with the URL not changing because it's a post. (Although hitting it again
brings me to www.slashdot.org).

Comment 10

[cpratt]

"the data is getting sent to the server properly this time, however the Textarea
is drawing it wrong" -
OK, then I can mark this as fixed & close it out. [e-mail] is working on
textarea display problems - can't remember the right bug numbers but they're
definitely there. closing bug again.

Comment 11

[Akkana Peck]

View Source re-fetches the source from the server (or, when we have one, the
cache); it doesn't try to generate the source from the content tree.  This is as
RickG designed it.

Comment 12

[Eric Pollmann]

One very closely related bug is bug 15204.  Harish is working on that.