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Bug 23425 - Allow URL href setter to throw for invalid URLs
Summary: Allow URL href setter to throw for invalid URLs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: URL (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+urlspec
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Reported: 2013-10-02 15:13 UTC by Erik Arvidsson
Modified: 2013-10-15 13:03 UTC (History)
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Description Erik Arvidsson 2013-10-02 15:13:21 UTC 
For HTMLAnchorElement href setter we need to support setting href to an invalid URL. However, for URL objects we should disallow it. Having URL objects that are invalid is bad and hard to detect.
Comment 1 Anne 2013-10-15 13:03:12 UTC 
Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926890 on Gecko.