Arch Linux

If I click on voting for a report, I am getting the vote add url in the tab of my browser. This does not seem to be a big issue, but:

I did not know this, and I am sure this is not an expected behavior for many, including me, so I innocently used the regular procedure of getting an url to the bugreport in question to show that to my acquaintances.

What happened was they got a link for adding a vote automatically. I did not realize it as I really did not expect it.

I am not sure if it is a bug in the web software you are using (probably is), but either way, I think this would be better eliminated either in upstream and then upgrade, or solving it locally for Arch.

I do not think this is a useful behavior, but people could abuse it by posting into public channels, etc, and get votes from other people, etc.

It is very easy to reproduce:

1) Report a bug.

2) Click on vote.

3) control-l or equivalent.

4) control-c or equivalent.

5) Go to another windows.

6) control-p or equivalent.

7) You can observe the link for automated voting.

I came across this behavior with the following report:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&action=details.addvote&task_id=37868

I got the following link after the voting and the aforementioned scenario:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&action=details.addvote&task_id=37868