Bug 34512 – dataTransfer.getData('text/uri-list'): lines should be separated by CR-LF

• Status: NEW
• Component: Platform

[Roland Steiner]

As per RFC 2483 (http://www.rfc-editor.org./rfc/rfc2483.txt, page 11), text/* formats in general should have their lines separated with a CR-LF pair.

The current implementation for dataTransfer.getData('text/uri-list') however uses LF only.

[Roland Steiner]

Created attachment 47994 [details]
patch - change output of getData('text/uri-list') to use CR-LF

Patch changing the output from using just LF as line breaks to CR-LF, as per RFC 2483.

[Oliver Hunt]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=47994) [details]
> patch - change output of getData('text/uri-list') to use CR-LF
> 
> Patch changing the output from using just LF as line breaks to CR-LF, as per
> RFC 2483.

Have you tested this for compatibility with other UAs?

[Roland Steiner]

The FireFox documentation only mentions LF as line separators, e.g., in https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DragDrop/Drag_Operations#Performing_a_Drop , but the implementation seems to be fine with CRLF in setData("text/uri-list") followed by getData("URL"). 

FF also doesn't seem to generate URLs from files. 

I guess it'd be best if the UA handles both types of line endings, but still having a confusion here is far from ideal. Not sure what the best approach is. 

I have raised this (and other) question on the whatwg mailing list.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Comment on attachment 47994 [details]
patch - change output of getData('text/uri-list') to use CR-LF

It seems like we should wait to hear back from the whatwg before changing this behavior?

Clearing r? for now, feel free to re-set it at any time.