[Pidgin] #7894: Overflowing URL makes client not respond

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#7894: Overflowing URL makes client not respond
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Reporter:  Jesdisciple  |        Type:  defect                          
  Status:  new          |   Component:  pidgin (gtk)                    
 Version:  2.5.2        |    Keywords:  long, URL, overflow, overflowing
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 Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex"

 When I enter a URL longer than the minimum length required to overflow the
 message field, my mouse-cursor begins to flash and the program ceases to
 respond.  I click the X, which brings up a "not responding" dialog; I
 select Force Quit and both the conversation and the client close.

 The URL with which I discovered this is
 [http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Nzk4MTIzNjg2YzZjNThlYzk2YmE5ZjA1YjRlNTc4YmM=].
 Leading/trailing text is irrelevant; only the length of the URL itself
 matters.  Variations on the above case which result in the same result
 (sometimes without the flashing cursor) include:

 * I paste the full URL into an unmaximized conversation of the normal
 size.

 * I paste
 http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Nzk4MTIzNjg2YzZjNThlYzk2YmE5ZjA1YjRlNT
 into a normal-sized conversation and enter some surrounding text, then
 maximize the window.  I successfully add to the URL, then unmaximize.

 * I paste the above partial URL and type some trailing text (beginning
 with a space).  I delete the space.

 Curiously, however, adding text to any other part of the URL is not a
 problem ''until'' the URL is finally complete.  I pasted
 http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=IzNjg2YzZjNThlYzk2YmE5ZjA1YjRlNTc4YmM=
 into the message field and encountered no problems.  Then, one character
 at a time, I entered the missing Nzk4MT and only lost control of the
 application after entering the T.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7894>
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