81066 - backslash in javascript: url makes url do nothing

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

None of these work in 051420 when typed into the location bar.  No error 
messages are shown on the JS console or the text console.

javascript:alert('a\nb');
javascript:"3\n<b> \n ".
javascript:alert(2); "a\nb"; alert(3);
javascript:3 \ 4     (should give an "illegal character" error message.)

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Confirming bug with debug build 2001-05-15 WinNT. You get a nice
alertbox if you do javascript: alert('ab'); but you get nothing 
if you do javascript:alert('a\nb');

In fact, you get an assertion that something in LoadURI failed.
No errors in JavaScript console.

Browser,not engine. Reassigning to Embedding:Docshell for 
further analysis - 

Comment 2

[Adam Lock]

It looks like some of the URI fixup code may be interfering with some of these 
URIs, switching backslashes to forward slashes, misinterpretting them as file:// 
URLs etc.

Comment 3

[Adam Lock]

The fix for bug 75063 should resolve most of these issues.

Comment 4

[Adam Lock]

Examples all work now. Marking FIXED (by 75063)

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Fixed with debug builds 2001-05-17 on WinNT, Linux.
All the examples work -