The data: URI scheme (RFC 2397) handler seems to have a minor problem interpreting base64-encoded strings (RFC 2045, section 6.8) when they are padded (see RFC 2045, page 24, penultimate paragraph). This corresponds to the trailing equal signs in the base64 data. The page referenced by the URI given above should contain the text "This is a test." and *nothing else*. Whereas Mozilla seems to add a random character on the second line. This is probably an error in the computation of the size of the data.

not critical for beta3

Confirmed on Linux 2000080308.

Adding "patch" keyword.

->me

david: my appologies for not responding to this bug sooner... thanks for the patch! hopefully, i'll be able to get it in by 0.9.1.

neeti: any chance you could review this patch and possibly help land it for 0.9.1?

david: I just see the line "This is a test." both before and after applying the patch, when I load the url mentioned above. I did not see any random characters on the second line in mozilla before and after applying the patch. Do you still see the random characters on the second line in mozilla on the second line?

This has indeed been fixed on 2000/11/29 while resolving bug 53792 (essentially a duplicate of this one). That's the end of that bug, *BUT* that's not the end of the story as far as "data:" scheme URIs are concerned; because the resolution by sspitzer@netscape.com of bug 53792 introduces another bug, which I will be filing in an minute, and which would have been avoided had my patch been used instead (<"told you so" grin>). I will add the new bug number as soon as I check it and file it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53792 ***

followup to bug 78876

verified dups