[RFC][icedtea-web] Fix for PR855: AppletStub getDocumentBase() doesn't return full URL

[Jiri Vanek]

On 05/17/2012 11:16 PM, Danesh Dadachanji wrote:
>
> On 16/04/12 01:18 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
>> * Danesh Dadachanji<ddadacha at redhat.com> [2012-02-03 15:40]:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This patch is a fix for PR855[1]. The return of getDocumentBase()
>>> currently doesn't include the HTML file. According to the docs, it
>>> should return the entire path of the HTML, including the filename.
>>>
>>> Attached is a patch that adds this. I've checked all the traces of
>>> the bytes grabbed from the pipe over on the java side. I believe I
>>> covered every read and assignment of the buffer/vars setup from the
>>> buffer and so on. We fortunately only ever used getDocumentBase()'s
>>> return to grab the host IP or use it as a base URL. The latter code
>>> grabbed the return and cut off everything after the last '/', which
>>> back before patch is the entire URL, post patch is the URL excluding
>>> the file name.
>>>
>>> Okay for HEAD? Thoughts on backporting to release branches? It was
>>> reported against 1.1.3 but this is a pretty big change that
>>> potentially affects the way users' applications behave.
>>>
>>
>> Looking at the surrounding code, we are taking a URL, splitting it on
>> "/" and then combining the first length-1 components. This was done to
>> purposely remove the file name itself.
>>
>> However if we want to add the file name back, we should just remove all
>> of the splitting/combing code rather than appending the last part.
>>
>> Have you tried using NPVARIANT_TO_STRING(href).utf8characters directly?
>>
>
> Ah yes I wasn't paying attention to the surrounding code :S
>
> How's this look? I'd like to backport this to 1.2 as well. The reporter uses 1.1.3 though so perhaps
> it should go into 1.1 too? Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Danesh
Can we get also test for this? :(