202525 - editing params with opera corrupts multi-line fields such as mail templates

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 208944

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Dale Hagglund]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; UNIX) Opera 6.1  [en]
Build Identifier: 

When I edit bugzilla parameters with opera, the multi-line
fields such as the mail templates are displayed as a single
long line.  When I view the source that opera think's it's
displaying, it shows the &#13 identifiers for a raw CR.

If I then click "save edits", even without changing
anything, bugzilla reports that passwordmail, newchangedmail,
whinemail, voteremovedmail, and browserbugmessage are all
changed.

If I then look at the new value of data/params, all of
these fields have become a single-very long line.  Naturally,
this screws up the sending of bug-email.

To edit the preferences safely, I used IE, although I expect
other browsers might have worked as well.

This seems to be related to bug 92500 and bug 97980 and
perhaps others.

I will attach the html that opera gets for the editparams.cgi
page, as well as the before and after versions of data/params.

This could very well be a bug in opera, of course, although I
have used opera to edit multi-line text-boxes and things seem
to have gone ok then.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. start opera and log into bugzilla as the administrator
2. click on the "parameters" link.
3. click on "submit changes".


Actual Results:  
data/params is now corrupt.  All of the multi-line fields
in it are very long single lines.

Comment 1

[Dale Hagglund]

Attachment: the html generated by editparams.cgi as shown by opera's view souce option

Comment 2

[Dale Hagglund]

Attachment: original data/params before being corrupted

Comment 3

[Dale Hagglund]

Attachment: data/params after being corrupted

Note that all multi-line fields have had their newlines
removed.

Comment 4

[Jacob Steenhagen]

I was thinking that this may be a dupe of bug 92500 but that was supposed to be
fixed in 2.16 and this is reported against 2.16.2... there was also a post in
the newsgroup about the no recipient found in header problem.

http://groups.google.com/groups?group=netscape.public.mozilla.webtools&selm=bcsu7e%2446j1%40ripley.netscape.com

Comment 5

[Vlad Dascalu]

This has been discovered as been the problem of bug 208944 . It's really hard to
decide which one to mark as a duplicate, but since I've just finished posted in
the 208944, including a screenshot , I'll mark this one as a duplicate and
repost Dale's initial report there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 208944 ***