1717 - crash on submitting search form at cnn.com

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P2)

Description

[ernie]

the search form at the top of cnn.com causes a crash
using the 11/30 build on NT and win98.

part of the form code is below.
basically, there is a js call (document.seek_top.submit())
to do a GET request when "go" is clicked on.

<FORM NAME="seek_top" METHOD=GET ACTION="http://search.cnn.com:8765/query.html">

<A HREF="javascript:document.seek_top.submit()"><FONT FACE="Helvetica,
Arial,sans-serif" COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="2">go</FONT></A>

Comment 1

[Eric Pollmann]

This one can be distilled to:
http://blueviper/forms/submitcrash.html

It appears that JS is trying to fetch the property "submit" of the form seek_top
and is getting back a null.  Still looking into it.

Comment 2

[Eric Pollmann]

Gecko no longer crashes in this case

cnn.com has changed their page for Gecko's useragent string.  However, I tested
with an old version I had saved (blueviper/forms/submitcrash_cnn.html) and the
"distilled version" (blueviper/forms/submitcrash.html) and neither caused a
crash.

Comment 3

[leger]

Marking Verified/Invalid