description('Test setting the hostname attribute of the URL in HTMLAnchorElement.'); var a = document.createElement('a'); debug("Basic test"); a.href = "https://www.mydomain.com:8080/path/"; a.hostname = "www.otherdomain.com"; shouldBe("a.href", "'https://www.otherdomain.com:8080/path/'"); // IE8 throws an exception "The URL is invalid". try { debug("Extra slashes before hostname"); a.href = "https://www.mydomain.com:8080/path/"; a.hostname = "//www.otherdomain.com"; shouldBe("a.href", "'https://www.otherdomain.com:8080/path/'"); } catch(e) { debug("Exception: " + e.description); } // Firefox 3.5.2 does not allow setting the host to foo: protocol debug("Set hostname to URL with foo: protocol"); a.href = "foo://www.mydomain.com/path/"; a.hostname = "www.otherdomain.com"; shouldBe("a.href", "'foo://www.otherdomain.com/path/'"); // IE8 converts null to "null", which is not the right thing to do. // Firefox 3.5.2 allows setting the hostname to null, which is wrong per // http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/infrastructure.html#url-decomposition-idl-attributes . debug("Set hostname to null"); a.href = "https://www.mydomain.com:8080/path/"; a.hostname = null; shouldBe("a.href", "'https://www.mydomain.com:8080/path/'"); // Both IE8 and Firefox 3.5.2 allow setting the host to empty string, against the spec at // http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/infrastructure.html#url-decomposition-idl-attributes . // Since both do that in a buggy way, WebKit should not follow either one of them. debug("Set hostname to empty string"); a.href = "https://www.mydomain.com:8080/path/"; a.hostname = ""; shouldBe("a.href", "'https://www.mydomain.com:8080/path/'"); // IE8 fails to process really: protocol. debug("Set hostname to URL with 2 colons"); a.href = "really:bad:url"; a.hostname = "mydomain.com"; shouldBe("a.href", "'really:bad:url'"); // The expected behavior should change when the character table is updated. // IE8 encodes the space in the hostname. // Firefox3.5.2 and WebKit consider space as illegal character and would not set // the new hostname. debug("Set a hostname that contains space in it"); a.href = "http://www.my domain.com/path/"; a.hostname = "www.other domain.com"; shouldBe("a.href", "'http://www.my domain.com/path/'"); // IE8 throws an exception "The URL is invalid". try { debug("Set hostname on a local file"); a.href = "c:/path/testurl.html"; a.hostname= "a"; shouldBe("a.href", "'c:/path/testurl.html'"); } catch(e) { debug("Exception: " + e.description); } debug("Set hostname to undefined"); a.href = "https://www.mydomain.com:8080/path/"; a.hostname = undefined; shouldBe("a.href", "'https://undefined:8080/path/'"); var successfullyParsed = true;