[webkit-dev] CSS Parse error in <link rel> element.

[Atul Sowani]

At present I am focusing on CSSParser::findURI() particularly
and CSSParser::realLex() other related functionality in CSSParser.cpp
- hope I am on right track. ;-)

Please let me know if I should be looking at some other functionality as
well to resolve this issue.

Thanks!
Atul.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Atul Sowani <sowani at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I came across an issue in qtwebkit CSS parser while working on a PhantomJS
> crash. The issue seems to be with parsing of <link rel="..." href="...">
> type elements in an HTML page. What I observed is that the parser is trying
> to interpret the value for href given inside double-quotes. The value
> contains a "-" (e.g. "http://some.domain.com/some-page-etc-etc"). The "-"
> sign is being interpreted as minus and then things go wrong. In another
> case I found that "\g" embedded in the value (e.g. "
> http://some.domain.com/some-page/global/something") is also creating
> issues. In essence, the parser is trying to interpret the value, which I
> believe, it should not.
>
> I am willing to dive further into it to debug and fix the issue, but
> looking at the complexity and size of WebCore, I think I would benefit a
> lot to expedite a fix, if I could get some tips about which code
> area/functionality I should specifically focus in the WebCore. Looking
> forward to some help in this regard.
>
> Thanks,
> Atul.
>
>
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