Closed
Bug 280546
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
JavaScript1.2 - foo.replace("?","") dies with "invalid quantifier"
Categories
(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: Erb, Unassigned)
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier:
The URL produces a popup window with the following source:
<html>
<head>
<title>eTrust SSO for Web</title>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2">
<!--
window.onload = loadFrame;
function loadFrame() {
var loginURL = "/?SSOCMD=SSOLOGIN";
var query = top.location.search;
if ( query ) {
loginURL = query.replace("SSCMD", "SSOCMD" );
loginURL = loginURL.replace("SSCMD", "SSOCMD" );
loginURL = loginURL.replace("?query=", "?");
}
top.data.location.replace(loginURL);
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<frameset noresize framespacing="0" frameborder="0" border="false" cols="500"
rows="360,0">
<frame name="data" noresize scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
src="data.html">
<body>
</body>
</frameset>
</html>
Note the tricky way the URL is replaced. This works on IE but not Firefox.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See Details
Actual Results:
Only the page background is visible.
Expected Results:
New URL is navigated to in popup window, showing a form.
Sorry, forgot the Firefox version:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
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Comment 2•21 years ago
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Try disabling the popup blocking, otherwise popups in load events aren't going
to appear.
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Comment 4•21 years ago
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I suspect that will turn out to be an intentional feature of JavaScript1.2,
which was a rather different beast than most JavaScripts. While
<script language="JavaScript">
alert("f?oo".replace('?oo','ee'));
</script>
alerts "Fee",
<script language="JavaScript1.2">
alert("f?oo".replace('?oo','ee'));
</script>
dies with an "Error: invalid quantifier ?" in the JS Console.
Assignee: firefox → general
Component: General → JavaScript Engine
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → pschwartau
Summary: tricky JavaScript replacement of current page URL does not work → JavaScript1.2 - foo.replace("?","") dies with "invalid quantifier"
Version: 1.0 Branch → Trunk
It may be unavoidable to have to say that Microsoft sets the standard.
I think that's pretty much the reason behind most pages that work "wrong"
in Mozilla/Firefox.
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Comment 6•21 years ago
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This error occurs for JavaScript 1.1-1.4, but not in JavaScript 1.5. The ECMA
262 1 and 2 Specifications had the first argument as a regular expression
however ECMA 262 3 has the first argument as either a string or a regular
expression. In JS 1.1 - 1.4, We convert the argument to a regular expression but
in JS 1.5 we treat it as a string.
Another example where older JS version emulation bites us.
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Comment 7•21 years ago
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Comment 8•20 years ago
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Fixed for 1.8b2 by checkin for bug 255895.
/be
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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