164171 - Copying mail message containing password into web page requiring password produces extraneous characters

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Andy Rudmik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820

We have an application the sends email message to users containing password that
they need to use to log into application.  Copy and paste of the password from
email inserts extraneous characters.  Sample message contained HTML

<li>Enter your password: rim659la</li>

Select, Copy and paste produces the following:

# rim659la

Note the insertion of '# '.

This means that user cannot copy and paste password.  Testing with Outlook and
Eudora works correctly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Select, Copy password in email message
2.  Paste anywhere produces extraneous leading characters
3.

Actual Results:  
When pasting into web page, the extra characters are not displayed.  User cannot
log in unless they type in the password.

Expected Results:  
Paste just the text not special characters at begining.

Comment 1

[Andy Rudmik]

Attachment: Provides way to reproduce error

One way to demonstrate the bug is to open the attached file in composer.  View
the message in normal mode and try to copy and paste the password into TextEdit
(notepad).  You will observe that I cannot copy the password with getting some
extra characters.  This is a new bug in Mozilla because I was able to do this
in the recent past without the problem I'm reporting.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1)
Gecko/20020818. Selecting and copying just password text "rim659la" in test URL
accessed in browser window puts "   1. rim659la
" on the Clipboard.

Reassigning to DOM to Text Conversion.

Comment 3

[Andy Rudmik]

I've confirmed that this bug is now fixed.

Comment 4

[sujay]

verified per comments.

Comment 5

[Andy Rudmik]

I can provide a person access to the application should you need to do that in
order to validate the problem.  Access will require that you have a username and
password.