434758 - Setting document.documentURI throws NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED exception

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Romain Bohdanowicz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_2; fr-fr) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18
Build Identifier: 

An exception is thrown when we try to change the document.documentURI value.

Exception is (from Firebug) :
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) [nsIDOM3Document.documentURI]" nsresult: "0x80004001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED)" location: "JS frame :: :: init :: line 1" data: no]

According to W3C, this property should not be read-only :
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/ecma-script-binding.html


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://sandbox.baseclip.com/setDocumentURI.html#test
2. Watch the exception !

Actual Results:  
Exception thrown.

Expected Results:  
An alert showing the documentURI without the hash appears.

Comment 1

[Brian Carpenter [:geeknik]]

The original URL no longer exists, please update this bug and let us know if you're still seeing this issue, and if so, give us an updated URL to work with. If you're not seeing this issue, please close the bug as WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Confirming. It's not yet clear what should happen here.

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Removing closeme from whiteboard since comment 2 added after it/bug now confirmed.

Comment 4

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Doesn't throw anymore (outside strict mode).