Closed Bug 304816 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

wrong translation in the URL of links for ampersand

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Composer
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mwbug, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

I want to define the URL
http://some.server/cgi-bin/doc_view.cgi?doc_name=someDocument&edition=ALL
as a link in composer. Automatically the '&' is translated to & .
This makes the link unusable and the page is not found
I corrected the link directly in <html> source view (from &amp; back to &), but
on switching to another view or on save it is changed back to &amp; .

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.insert link
2.add http://some.server/cgi-bin/doc_view.cgi?doc_name=someDocument&edition=ALL
as link
3.save

Actual Results:  
the link in the html document is invalid (described in Details).

Expected Results:  
The ampersand should not be changed to &amp; in URLs.
ampersands must be escaped in HTML. the link should still work fine, though.
what is the url that mozilla requested, that caused the problem?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
You are right, the &amp; in links is accepted by browsers without problems. I
never did this in links in handcoded html, though and was therefore confused :-)
So really this is not a bug.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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