Bug 97351

Summary:

<base target> seems to not be applied to links consistently

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky>

Component:

Page Loading

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED DUPLICATE

Severity:

Normal

CC:

abarth, ap

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Unspecified

OS:

Unspecified

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Testcase	none

Boris Zbarsky

Reported 2012-09-21 11:17:42 PDT

Created attachment 165156 [details] Testcase Clicking "Click me" in the attached testcase should alert "PASS" because the base target is the subframe. But instead it seems to alert "FAIL" in WebKit. Presto and Gecko get this right.

Attachments
Testcase (293 bytes, text/html) 2012-09-21 11:17 PDT, Boris Zbarsky	no flags	Details
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Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 1 2012-09-24 11:26:05 PDT

AFAICT, this is not even some kind of cross-origin protection, but just a bug. I haven't heard of "base target" before though.

Adam Barth

Comment 2 2012-09-24 11:38:48 PDT

We don't implement base@target for JavaScript URLs correctly. There's already a bug on file with a bunch of related test cases. It's a consequence of how we handle JavaScript URLs, which is to special case them early in the navigation pipeline. Gecko handles them in a general case near the end of the resource loading pipeline.

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 3 2012-09-24 12:20:17 PDT

Thanks Adam! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13543 ***

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