Bug#600149: iceweasel: incorrectly copies location bar content

Dmitry Baryshev ksquirrel.iv at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 22:53:31 UTC 2010


In 3.6.x it can be achieved with network.standard-url.escape-utf8, I think
you can close this bug.

14 октября 2010 г. 13:21 пользователь Dmitry Baryshev <
ksquirrel.iv at gmail.com> написал:

> Hi. According to RFC, URL must be escaped before communicating with server.
> I don't see any reason why iceweasel copies escaped URL. It's application
> duty to escape URL before connecting to a server, so there is no need to
> escape something. If some application cannot use unescaped URLs, it's a bug.
>
> 2010/10/14 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:00:20AM +0300, Krasu wrote:
>> > Package: iceweasel
>> > Version: 3.5.13-1
>> > Severity: normal
>> >
>> > When I try to copy some non-ASCII address from location bar, for example
>> >
>> > http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Славянская_мифология<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F>
>> >
>> > iceweasel will copy escaped line, e.g.
>> >
>> >
>> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F
>> >
>> > I expect (and I think many other users, I saw a flame war about that)
>> that
>> > iceweasel will copy the address itself without escaping, like all other
>> > browsers do.
>>
>> I think iceweasel is right doing this, because it can't know for sure
>> the target application will be able to handle the unescaped url (the url
>> probably needs to be escaped when talking to the server)
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards, Krasu
>



-- 
Regards, Krasu
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