[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 46982] New: Setting href protocol attribute on malformed URL is incorrect when page is served over HTTP

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46982

           Summary: Setting href protocol attribute on malformed URL is
                    incorrect when page is served over HTTP
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebCore Misc.
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: steveblock at google.com
                CC: yael.aharon at nokia.com


LayoutTest fast/dom/HTMLAnchorElement/set-href-attribute-protocol.html tests setting the protocol attribute of the href of an anchor element.

A particular part of this test is as follows ...

debug("Set protocol to http on malformed URL");
a.href = "foo:??bar";
a.protocol = "http";
shouldBe("a.href", "'http:??bar'");

I noticed that when the test is served over HTTP, rather than as a file:// URL  as is currently the case, this test fails as follows ...

Chromium (including ToT WebKit): FAIL - http://host/??bar
Safari (including ToT WebKit)  : FAIL - http://host/path??bar
Android (including ToT WebKit) : FAIL - http://host/path??bar

The test passes on recent versions of FF and IE. A test case, which duplicates the existing test as an HTTP test, is attached.

The spec - http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/urls.html - suggests that the expected result in the test is correct irrespective of the scheme over which the page is served, so it looks to me like this should be fixed.

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