Author: wikimedia-bz
Description:
Description: It's possible to successfully submit feedback of more than 5,000 characters by copy/pasting into the feedback dialog and immediately hitting "Post your feedback".
Platforms: reproduced on both Iceweasel 3.5.16/Debian Squeeze and Google Chrome 19.0.1084.56 m/WinXP.
Reproduction:
- Prepare a text document of >5,000 characters. (In this example, I used the lyrics to "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General", repeated three times, for a total of about 6,500 characters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major-General%27s_Song )
- Navigate to a page with AFTv5 enabled, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-crowned_Sparrow?aftv5_form=1&aftv5_link=E
- Click the "Yes" button to indicate you found what you were looking for.
- Copy the text of the document and paste it into the feedback form.
- Without further modifying the text in any way, click the "Post your feedback" button.
Observed result: The feedback is accepted and posted.
Expected result: Feedback of greater than 5,000 characters is rejected with an error message to the user.
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor