3861 – & and & in link do not get converted to &

RESOLVED FIXED 3861

& and & in link do not get converted to &

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3861

Summary & and & in link do not get converted to &

Travis Goodspeed

Reported 2005-07-05 04:28:38 PDT

When the server sets the Content-type to text/xml and a link is clicked where the href contains a properly-escaped ampersand, the page loaded uses the numerical escape code for an ampersand instead of an ampersand. This causes some serious issues with server-generated websites as links that set more than one variable are mutilated.

Attachments
testcase application/xhtml+xml (241 bytes, application/xhtml+xml) 2005-07-05 04:41 PDT, Joost de Valk (AlthA)	no flags	Details
testcase application xhtml+xml (390 bytes, application/xhtml+xml) 2005-07-05 04:46 PDT, Joost de Valk (AlthA)	no flags	Details
testcase text/html (390 bytes, text/html) 2005-07-05 04:51 PDT, Joost de Valk (AlthA)	no flags	Details
testcase text/xml (390 bytes, text/xml) 2005-07-05 04:52 PDT, Joost de Valk (AlthA)	no flags	Details
testcase application/xhtml+xml (427 bytes, application/xhtml+xml) 2005-07-05 04:56 PDT, Joost de Valk (AlthA)	no flags	Details
Instruct libXML to parse entities (744 bytes, patch) 2005-09-23 03:54 PDT, Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)	eric: review-	Details Formatted Diff Diff
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Joost de Valk (AlthA)

Comment 1 2005-07-05 04:41:53 PDT

Created attachment 2806 [details] testcase application/xhtml+xml

Joost de Valk (AlthA)

Comment 2 2005-07-05 04:46:28 PDT

Created attachment 2807 [details] testcase application xhtml+xml

Joost de Valk (AlthA)

Comment 3 2005-07-05 04:51:11 PDT

Created attachment 2808 [details] testcase text/html common text/html testcase

Joost de Valk (AlthA)

Comment 4 2005-07-05 04:52:34 PDT

Created attachment 2809 [details] testcase text/xml

Joost de Valk (AlthA)

Comment 5 2005-07-05 04:55:09 PDT

testcases don't work yet, the url shows a testcase that does... it IS a bug tho :)

Joost de Valk (AlthA)

Comment 6 2005-07-05 04:56:35 PDT

Created attachment 2811 [details] testcase application/xhtml+xml

Joost de Valk (AlthA)

Comment 7 2005-07-05 05:01:06 PDT

testcases work now. It seems that webkit just doesn't change & into & but it DOES change & into &. Renaming bug.

Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)

Comment 8 2005-09-23 03:54:10 PDT

Created attachment 4014 [details] Instruct libXML to parse entities The problem originated in the switch to libXML as the standard XML parser. LibXML will not parse entities by default and must be explicitly instructed to do so. The previous Qt parser works the other way around. This patch will turn on entity parsing for libXML.

Darin Adler

Comment 9 2005-09-23 08:40:15 PDT

Comment on attachment 4014 [details] Instruct libXML to parse entities Looks good to me. I believe Eric Seidel is already working on this.

Eric Seidel (no email)

Comment 10 2005-09-23 09:29:46 PDT

Comment on attachment 4014 [details] Instruct libXML to parse entities This patch AFAIK won't actually do anything. Intructing it is only really half the battle. If you look at my patch: http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/attachment.cgi?id=3953 you'll see the rest of the improvements I needed to make for Entity support.

Niels Leenheer (HTML5test)

Comment 11 2005-09-23 09:49:50 PDT

Eric: This patch does do something. It enables libxml's build-in entity support. This build-in support is limited to numeric entities and the standard named entities defined in XML (quot, amp, lt, gt), which is exactly what this bug is about. It looks like your patch will do the same and additionally add support for other named entities (bug 4301), so my patch not needed anymore.

Eric Seidel (no email)

Comment 12 2005-10-16 21:36:51 PDT

This seems fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4301 ***

Eric Seidel (no email)

Comment 13 2005-10-16 21:37:42 PDT

Actually, this one is fixed, but independent of bug 4301.

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 14 2006-11-21 13:04:06 PST

*** Bug 11655 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

J Ross Nicoll

Comment 15 2006-11-24 04:38:16 PST

As I'm still seeing this bug in version 419.3, I'm wondering when we'll see a fixed version? Okay, what I really mean is, was the patch never committed into the source, or has this been broken again since fixing?

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 16 2006-11-24 09:58:02 PST

I've just tested, and it works correctly in the latest nightly build: <http://nightly.webkit.org>. Vendors (such as Apple, Omni or Adobe) do not provide information about their release plans, and if you need this particular bugfix to be released ASAP, you'd have to contact each of them directly, unfortunately.

Bryce Nesbitt

Comment 17 2007-06-22 23:16:05 PDT

I still see this in Safari 2.0.4 (419.3). AFIK, it is impossible to send more than one parameter back to the server in a xml document, such as XHTML MP (Mobile Profile), if it's served as xml: test.xhtml <?xml version="2.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>City CarShare - Neigborhood Vehicles</title></head> <body> <h2><img src="logo.png" alt="" />City CarShare</h2> <p> City CarShare is a Bay Area nonprofit on a mission to provide convenient, affordable access to cars so that we can reduce individual car ownership... <a href="http://www.citycarshare.org/">www.citycarshare.org</a><br/> <a href="http://www.citycarshare.org/test.xhtml?foo=1234&fum=4567">test1</a><br/> <a href="http://www.citycarshare.org/test.xhtml?foo=1234&fum=4567">test2</a><br/> </p> </body> </html> The above XML escapes the amperstand, as it must to do validate. Safari converts the & to the & entity. The & entity is left untouched. Thus both URL's are damaged at the time the server gets them. Is there a trick to get past this?

Gheorghe Flavian

Comment 18 2007-07-11 03:10:03 PDT

It' s not fixed! I have a similar problem with a download link that uses javascript . This website uses javascript to send a php file the name of the file and another parameter: <a onclick= return dld(php_file?param1=%2F&file='name')></a> This link works in all other browser tested: Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer. Problem appears both on the Mac and Windows version of Safari (3.0.2 the Windows version).

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 19 2007-07-11 05:35:57 PDT

Ugh, reopening. There was no fix in this bug, and apparently no regression case, sadly. Broke between r18068 and r23922, I think we should find out when this happened (in case it was a test-less fix for some other bug).

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 20 2007-07-12 00:51:51 PDT

Hmm, I'm almost sure that I could reproduce this yesterday, but now I can not (of course, this still happens with shipping 10.4 Safari/WebKit, but that's not the point). Help with testing needed. > <a onclick= return dld(php_file?param1=%2F&file='name')></a> Gheorghe, this bug was only about XHTML, and your snippet is plain HTML. Please file a new bug for this issue.

Bryce Nesbitt

Comment 21 2007-07-12 21:18:30 PDT

It works for me with the current webkit, and the http://www.citycarshare.org/ example posted above.

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 22 2007-07-12 21:26:00 PDT

OK, so I guess it was my testing mistake. Sorry for the noise.

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Status RESOLVED

Resolution FIXED

Priority P2

Severity Major

Classification Unclassified

Version 412

Hardware Mac

OS OS X 10.4

Product WebKit

Component New Bugs

Assignee

Nobody

Reported

2005-07-05 04:28 PDT

Modified

2007-07-12 21:26 PDT History

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