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Bug 26473 - "Set buffer to the empty string. "
Summary: "Set buffer to the empty string. "
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: URL (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+urlspec
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Reported: 2014-07-30 18:09 UTC by Albert Wiersch
Modified: 2014-08-01 14:02 UTC (History)
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Description Albert Wiersch 2014-07-30 18:09:57 UTC 
http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#parsing

For authority state, step 1 sub-step 4:

[[
Set buffer to the empty string. 
]]

I'm pretty sure this should be:

Set buffer to the empty string, and state to host state.

Otherwise the state doesn't change when it needs to, because the authority state is finished.
Comment 1 Anne 2014-08-01 06:00:22 UTC 
No it shouldn't. That is why step 2 decreases the pointer by so much. We need to keep going ahead until we are certain there are no more "@" code points.
Comment 2 Albert Wiersch 2014-08-01 14:02:59 UTC 
Thank you. Makes sense.