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type command fails with security error in Firefox 8 for file inputs #2826
Description
Originally reported on Google Code with ID 2826
What steps will reproduce the problem?
Running this test in windows Vista with Firefox 8.0
It uses a publicly available page to make it easy to replicate the issue
<tr>
<td>open</td>
<td>http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_INPUT_TYPE_FILE.html</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>name=upfile</td>
<td>C:\Users\n.delargy\Desktop\M86_1_SV12.jpg</td>
</tr>
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd expect this to fill the file input
instead if produces the following exception
[error] Unexpected Exception: code -> 1000, INDEX_SIZE_ERR -> 1, DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR
-> 2, HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR -> 3, WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR -> 4, INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR ->
5, NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR -> 6, NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR -> 7, NOT_FOUND_ERR -> 8,
NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR -> 9, INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR -> 10, INVALID_STATE_ERR -> 11, SYNTAX_ERR
-> 12, INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR -> 13, NAMESPACE_ERR -> 14, INVALID_ACCESS_ERR -> 15,
VALIDATION_ERR -> 16, TYPE_MISMATCH_ERR -> 17, DATA_CLONE_ERR -> 25, message -> Security
error, result -> 2152924136, name -> NS_ERROR_DOM_SECURITY_ERR, filename -> chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/atoms.js,
lineNumber -> 8866, columnNumber -> 0, location -> JS frame :: chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/atoms.js
:: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 8866, inner -> null, data -> null
Selenium version: 1.3.0
OS: Windows
Browser: Firefox
Brower version: 8.0
Reported by n.delargy@ctidigital.com on 2011-11-11 15:27:51