791641 - URL copy-pasted into the URL bar - URL is mangled (server name repeats, characters added) and retrieval fails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 775072

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[David Tonhofer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0
Build ID: 20120828083304

Steps to reproduce:

Copy/paste the following URL into the address bar:

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4075


Actual results:

Firefox replaces the copy/pasted value by

http://www14.sowww14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4075%E2%80%8C

and tries to go there.



Expected results:

Go to indicated URL.

Tried with wget. Works.

Tried with firefox from the command line. Works:

firefox "http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4075"

BUT!

Tried with konqueror by copy/pasting the URL. Same problem.

Tried with konqueror from the command line. Works.

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

No Issue here on Windows 7 (Nightly).

Does it work when you flip network.standard-url.encode-utf8 from true to false in about:config?

Comment 2

[David Tonhofer]

network.standard-url.encode-utf8 toggled to "false" - same problem occurs.

0xE2808C is the UTF-8 encoded 0x200c "ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER" ... what would it do there?

And what is common between Konqueror and Firefox? 

I will try on other Fedora 17 installations.