358238 - The string "attachment" followed by a number anywhere in bugzilla will mess up attachment

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Attachments & Requests, defect)

Description

[Jean Qin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: bugzilla 2.22

Bugzilla automatically creates an extra link to a string "attachment" followed by a number. 

Here's the example:

The first line is the real attachment created. The second line is summary in attachment and the third line is the extra link created automatically by bugzilla.


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Created an attachment (id=2892) [edit]
test attachment

attachment 2 [details] [diff] [review] [edit]


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attach a file
2. Enter description
3. Type attachment 2 [details] [diff] [review] in Comment field in attachment or summary field

Actual Results:  
extra link automatically created besides the real attachment

Expected Results:  
only one attachment created

it is a big mess as you can get someone else attachment

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

The third line is something you typed or added--that's not generated by Bugzilla.

Yes, Bugzilla does intentionally highlight "Attachment #" so that you can easily link directly to certain attachments in comments.

Comment 2

[Jean Qin]

The problem I have is that the extra link doesn't refer to the attachment in the same bug but search for the string match and create an extra link to the match. For instance, if I type "attachment 2 [details] [diff] [review]" in attachment Comment or Summary, it will create a link that doesn't refer to the second attachment in my bug but some other bug that has an url: http://bugzilla.gsk.com/attachment.cgi?id=2&action=view, which is very confusing.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

This is exactly the desired behavior. Each attachment within your Bugzilla installation has a unqiue ID. So attachment 2 [details] [diff] [review] is the 2nd attachment in this installation, not in this bug. If you want to point to the 2nd attachment of this bug, look at its ID and insert it instead of "2".

Please leave this bug as INVALID.