1801872 - On Windows version of Firefox, the "copy as curl (POSIX)" option is not POSIX compliant

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, defect, P3)

Description

[Caroline Canebier]

Steps to reproduce:

I discovered this bug on a website that I don't want to share, but you can reproduce on any website : open the network tab, go to a website, select a request, and resend it with a line break in the data (for example, "a\nb").

Actual results:

If you "copy as curl (POSIX)" this request, the generated request has an "--data-raw $'\na\nb'", but this is not POSIX compliant (see https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC3003), and cannot be executed in Dash.

Expected results:

This option should either have a more explicit name ("copy as curl (Bash)" ?), or the escaped string should be generated in a POSIX compliant form, such as "$(printf 'a\nb')".

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:Honza, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Bomsy, could this be a dup of the existing report?

Comment 3

[Hubert Boma Manilla (:bomsy)]

Honza,
Nothing at the moment.

Thanks for reporting Caroline.
I think we should fix this to be more POSIX compliant.