Closed Bug 244150 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Multiple GET requests are made when "@import" rule is empty

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: harry, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3

The following piece of code demonstrates the problem/feature

      1 #!/usr/bin/perl
      2 use warnings;
      3 use strict;
      4 print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
      5 print STDERR "$$\n";
      6 print <<EOF;
      7 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"    
      8     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
      9 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
     10 <head>
     11     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1"/>
     12     <title>Harry Jacksons Home Page</title>
     13     <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
     14     <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
     15     <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
     16     <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
     17 </head>
     18 <body>
     19     <a href="http://www.hjackson.org">Hello Harry Jackson</a>
     20 </body>
     21 </html>
     22 EOF


The offending lines are the 

     13     <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
     14     <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
     15     <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
     16     <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>

these are empty import statements and for some reason Mozilla asks for the page
that they where found in. In the case above 4 requests will be handed off to Apache.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Perl CGI with the folloing code

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print STDERR "$$\n"; 
print <<EOF;
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"    
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/>
    <title>Harry Jacksons Home Page</title>
    <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
    <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
    <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
    <style type="text/css"> \@import "";</style>
</head>
<body>
    <a href="http://www.hjackson.org">Hello Harry Jackson</a>
</body>
</html>
EOF


2. Monitor your apache error log
3. Use Mozilla to request the page 

Actual Results:  
You will see 4 processes spanwed by Apache to handle 4 seperate requests.

Expected Results:  
To be honest I am not sure. It could be said that empty @import statements
exhibit undefined behaviout since I was unable to find anything defining the
behaviour at w3c.

I also checked this with IE and Lynx to see if either exhibited this behaviour
and both ignored the empty @import or at least appeared to.

This is the reason I have put it in as an enhancement because I was unable to
find anything defining empty @import rule behaviour.
The relative URI "" is resolved relative to the base URI (the page) and the
resulting URI is the URI of the page.

So you are in fact importing the page itself, and we should be loading and
parsing it as a stylesheet.

The fact that we're making 4 GET requests (instead of 1) probably has to do with
bug 84582 and the fact that the cache doesn't support reading from a cache entry
that's open for writing...
Depends on: 84582
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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Closed: 19 years ago
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