31854 - [4.xP] Unable to open www.foo.com:/some/dir (note colon)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[dougw]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; N; Linux 2.2.14 i586; en-US) Mozilla/m14
BuildID:    2000030316

When right clicking on an ftp:// link and selecting open in new window the
window opens without loading the ftp:// link. The link is not present in the
location field in the new window either.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Got to a web page with links to ftp sites.
2. Right click the ftp link
3. Select open link in new window


Actual Results:  New window opens without loading the ftp site. The url to the
ftp site is not placed in the location field.

Expected Results:  The new window should load the ftp site when opened. The url
to the ftp site should be placed in the location field.

This is the link where I first discovered the problem:
http://shelob.ce.ttu.edu/daves/lpfaq/faq-10.html
There is a link to an ftp site under availability for C2Latex.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

How exactly were you using 2000030316 when the bug was filed on 2000-03-14?

The reason this is failing is that the link in the page is to:
ftp://omnigate.clarkson.edu:/pub/tex/tex-programs/c2latex

Note the extra colon without a port number.

FTP Open In New Window works with non-odd links.

However, NS 4.72 does cope with this form of URL, so this is a [4.xP] bug. This 
problem also occurs for HTTP URLs.

Confirming, rewriting title, moving to Networking.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Reassigning to owner of selected component (Oops).

Gerv

Comment 3

[Andreas Otte]

Attachment: patch to fix the problem

Comment 4

[Andreas Otte]

Gagan: Assign the bug to me if you want, please review the patch.

Comment 5

[Warren Harris]

Jud, can you review this?

Comment 6

[Judson Valeski]

r=valeski. what's the [4.xP] notation?

Comment 7

[Andreas Otte]

fix checked in.

Comment 8

[benc]

qa to me.

VERIFIED:
Mozilla 0.9 Linux and Win32.

The submitted URL points to a server that is down, but I also tested the general
format:

ftp://ftp.netscape.com:/

To make sure we just ignore the colon and use the well-known port.

Comment 9

[benc]

MacOS too.