Closed
Bug 62742
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
bad META REFRESH causing heavy server load
Categories
(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
Future
People
(Reporter: dmitry, Assigned: jag+mozilla)
Details
(Keywords: testcase)
Attachments
(1 file)
if document contains bad HTML code like <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="25> it reloads page permanently
Comment 1•24 years ago
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I checked IE 5.5 and NS 4.7 and neither one of them handled it gracefully either. I considered resolving this INVALID because of the bad HTML but am instead confirming it because of the way it is handled. Both NS and IE print the bad META tag before any of the content, but Mozilla instead sets the refresh to "0". This can have an adverse effect on the web server it's being run from. Not sure where this would go so I'm moving it to Parser.
Assignee: mkaply → harishd
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → Parser
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: testcase
OS: OS/2 → All
QA Contact: doronr → janc
Summary: bad META REFRESH causing problems → bad META REFRESH causing heavy server load
Comment 2•24 years ago
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Comment 3•24 years ago
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BTW: testcase attachment contains invisible string: "This page contains the following invalid HTML " Probably its related to nonclosed quotationmarks
Comment 4•24 years ago
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Yes, it is... if you turn on view source coloring by adding user_pref("browser.view_source.syntax_highlight", true); to prefs.js (see bug 52154) and then do a view source of the testcase, you can in fact see that the unclosed string is casing this text to not show up. Forgot to mention, Also seeing this using a 20001211 build on Win2k
Keywords: 4xp
This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work in some way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.1 → Future
The given tag <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="25> is now (in build 2001060703) treated as if it were <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0; URL=25>">. This is less of a problem but rather odd. This just gave me trouble with http://www.freeairmiles.com (a site I would generally disrecommend but which has my email address).
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Comment 8•23 years ago
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I'll take this.
Assignee: harishd → jaggernaut
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
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Comment 9•23 years ago
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And marking WFM. I fixed this a while back.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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