55629 - We should strip null chars, and leading/trailing spaces from whiteboard/summary.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 101380

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

When I added a comment to and cc'ed myself to bug 51322 using IE 
5.50.4134.0600, six null characters ended up in the status whiteboard field.  I 
noticed because of what looked like spaces in the bugmail I recieved (Outlook 
Express).

I don't know whether this happened because IE or my school's proxy screwed up 
and inserted the null chars (and bugzilla accepted them), or whether the 
characters were added by a glitch in bugzilla.


Incomplete list of how various apps handle the null chars:

Moz: pretends null chars aren't there
IE: pretends null chars aren't there

Moz view-source: pretends null chars aren't there
IE view-source (uses notepad): turns null chars into spaces

IE save: preserves null chars (read the saved file with the C getc function)

Bugzilla search: the bug isn't listed when searching for [nsbeta3-]

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Adding another comment to the bug changed removed the null characters, changing 
the status whiteboard back to its original value.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

name of first attachment to bug 54136, too

Comment 3

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

We should strip all null characters, and leading/trailing spaces from
whiteboard/summary.

Comment 4

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

-> Bugzilla product, Changing-Bugs component (value check/conversion issue),
reassinging.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Making mat's comment into the subject.

Gerv

Comment 6

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101380 ***

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

clearing milestone for invalid/wontfix/worksforme/duplicate so they'll show up
as untriaged if they get reopened.

Comment 8

[Matt Perry]

Verified dupe