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title="NEW - [Unix] PluginProcessProxy::scanPlugin should not parse stdout"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164102">164102</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>[Unix] PluginProcessProxy::scanPlugin should not parse stdout
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>Product</th>
<td>WebKit
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<th>Version</th>
<td>Other
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>Normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P2
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Plug-ins
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>webkit-unassigned@lists.webkit.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mcatanzaro@igalia.com
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<td>bugs-noreply@webkitgtk.org
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<pre>PluginProcessProxy::scanPlugin spawns a WebKitPluginProcess and parses its stdout to populate a RawPluginMetaData object. It leads to very bad results if plugins print anything. For example, the name field for the GNOME Shell browser plugin gets set to "(WebKitPluginProcess:26462): GnomeShellBrowserPlugin-DEBUG: plugin loaded" because it prints a debug statement. The mimeDescription field gets set to "this plugin provides integration with gnome shell for live extension enabling and disabling. it can be used only by extensions.gnome.org" rather than a list of MIME types. This is too fragile.</pre>
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