377671 - XMLHttpRequest request truncated at null character ('\0')

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[David Batley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-UK; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-2) It was me, I was the turkey all along
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-UK; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-2)




//create a string containing a NULL character
var text = "WELCOME" + String.fromCharCode(0) + "HELLO WORLD!!";
alert("Text length is " + String(text.length));

//send text as POST to example.com
var hx = new XMLHttpRequest;
hx.open('POST', "http://example.com", true);
hx.onreadystatechange = function () { ; }
hx.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-example");
hx.send(text);

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David Batley]

Code above only sends "WELCOME" part and stops at NULL character. If string starts with zero char then no data part is sent.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

definitely a bug on the 1.8 branch:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/source/content/base/src/nsXMLHttpRequest.cpp#1548

not sure about trunk...

Comment 3

[Thomas Wisniewski]

It seems this bug can be closed. On today's nightly, the example above now sends the full text to the server (confirmed with a trivial PHP script that simply outputs the POST body it received).

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Feel free to resolve as worksforme. If there are still issues, one can always reopen the bug or file a new one.