788870 - Bugzilla reports dup_id as missing, when the bug_status is missing

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Description

[Brian Hourigan [:digi]]

When I was posted a bug assignment directly to the .cgi I forgot to include the bug_status field. Bugzilla wrongly reported that the "dup_id" parameter was missing.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

Which URL did you use? You are supposed to be blocked by the token check anyway.

Comment 2

[Brian Hourigan [:digi]]

I hit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/process_bug.cgi. I loaded the html, parsed the token, and re-submitted with the token as part of the POST parameters.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Bugzilla behaves correctly. If you don't set bug_status but set dup_id, then it correctly assumes that you want to mark the bug as duplicate. As you left dup_id empty, it complains that the dupe id is missing and throws an error. There is no reason to parse the HTML page to pass data to process_bug.cgi. If you don't want to use the web UI, use the WebService API instead.