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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #226716
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 226716

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 226716] Re: username and password not accepted for webmail application

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:27:48AM -0000, dlouzan wrote:
> I've had a similar problem developing a web application for my company.
> When trying to log in with a typical user - password form, I've noticed
> that the password input is not sending correctly codified characters, so
> the validation will fail (the same application works perfectly with FF2,
> IE6 and IE7). This only affected the password input, not the clear text
> one for the login. I've tracked the http communication and I've noticed
> that firefox 3.0b5 is sending incorrectly codified characters in the
> POST request.
>
> For instance, using login='tést' and password='tést' (both using non-
> ascii characters), firefox3.0b5 under Ubuntu 8.04 will send through POST
> the parameters login='tést' and password='test' (stripping the accented
> non-ascii characters). This seems a problem when typing, as if I
> copy&paste 'tést' into the password input instead of manually typing it,
> everything works.
>

is that fixed in RC1 now?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander