167925 - command line option -P"foo" without a space before "foo" is not handled

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, defect)

Description

[dantish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Category is command line parser

Command line option -P provides a way to specify the user profile name so that
the browser can start without the dialog box to select which user profile.  This
worked in Netscape v4.79, but not Mozilla v1.1 using:

D:\Netscape\Program\netscape.exe -P"opty" 
D:\Mozilla\mozilla.exe -P"opty" 

Netscape starts with the 'opty' profile without a dialog box.  
Mozilla ignores the command line spec and starts with a dialog box.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. If there is only one profile, create another with profile manager.
2. Create a new desktop link to Mozilla.exe and note that there is a dialog to
select the profile when Mozilla starts.
3. In the new link to Mozilla, edit the command line to include -P"profname",
where "profname' is one of the Mozilla profile names.


Actual Results:  
The dialog still happens when Mozilla starts.

Expected Results:  
Start without the dialog.

Maybe part of the problem:  Does the command line parser care about the order 
of multiple command line specs such as 
D:\Mozilla\mozilla.exe -P"profname" -composer index.htm

My intended use was to have several desktop links with URL on the command line
too.  This would allow each desktop link to launch the browser to a specified
site with cookies and security set appropriately for the site.  Netscape seemed
to accept no more than one command line arg, do it didn't do it either.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You need a space after the "-P".... So:

D:\Mozilla\mozilla.exe -P "opty" 

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comments from reporter:

Yup, that fixes it.  Thanks.
I was following the Netscape syntax:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/deploymt/options.htm


Over to command-line stuff to see whether we want to support the old syntax.

Comment 3

[andré]

Have Mozilla 1.4 fr running on mswin-98SE-fr:
This option worked in Moz 1.3.1 -- now works only if the profile name has no
international characters. (e.g.: é = é)
Without the accent in works exactly as documented on-line.
(i.e.: upper OR lower case -P, quotes optional if no space in profile name.)
Unfortunately my name is André ...

Comment 4

[timeless]

no, that's a totally unrelated bug, please file a new bug against jshin@mail

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

not a bug