gnatsweb/475: Storing Advanced Query may produce overlong cookie

[yngve . svendsen]

>Number:         475
>Notify-List:    address@hidden
>Category:       gnatsweb
>Synopsis:       Storing Advanced Query may produce overlong cookie
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 29 16:12:09 -0400 2003
>Originator:     Ken Shaw
>Release:        4.0 beta, id v1.119
>Organization:

>Environment:

>Description:
When a query is executed from the advanced query page and
then stored in the results page. When the stored query is
reexecuted (from either the query page or advanced query
page the stored query returns invalid results. The results
appear to be the results of a standard query for all PR's.
If the query is created from the query page and stored the
query results are always valid.

The length of the stored cookie from the advanced query
page appears to be much longer than from the query page
and there appears to be leading spaces in the string.

In Netscape (4.7) the invalid results are usually returned.
But will eventaully return a "BAD REQUEST" error from the
server and will lockup the Netscape Browser.

Using IE 6.0.2800 this scenario crashes the browser.
>How-To-Repeat:
Using Netscape (4.7) submit a query from the advanced query
page (with expressions or not) submit query. Save as stored
query in results page. From query page execute stored query
and compared the results.
>Fix:
May provide a partial fix by stripping the cookie's query string of unnecessary 
data. Target for fix will be Gnatsweb 4.1.
>Unformatted: