32025 - improper parsing of a script block

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 31140

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Roman R.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)
BuildID:    2000031508

In the page at http://www.softseek.com/, a script block (see below) is supposed 
to download and display a banner image; however, Mozilla displays the 
following: ); //-->

The script block:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2">
//<!-- // unique string
var ds=(new Date()).getTime();
var rgroup='r865';
document.write('<SCRIPT SRC="http://softseek.zdnet.com/fcgi-
bin/becky/js/RGROUP=' + rgroup +'/idx=' + ds +'"></SCRIPT>');
//-->
</SCRIPT>

IE 5 and NC 4.7 display it fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just visit the www.softseek.com


Actual Results:  Displayed ); //-->

Expected Results:  an image

Comment 1

[Roman R.]

Correction: it displayed '); //-->
I missed the single quote char the first time.

Comment 2

[Richard Zach]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31140 ***

Comment 3

[Stephen Walker]

verified