104156 - news: URLs gain ":119" (port number) when canonicalized

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, defect, P5)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Click a link to news://news.mozilla.org/3A5A0228.5010305%40netscape.com .

Result: the URL shown in the location bar includes :119.
Expected: the URL shouldn't have changed.

When I encountered this, my first thought was "why did that person link to a 
non-standard NNTP port?"

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

btw:
The URN "news:3bbe1b31$0$227$[e-mail]" does
not work, though this is the format specified in RFC 1738 paragraph 3.6.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 3

[benc]

+mozilla 1.0
The news: URL usage in MailNews is a strange, non-standard hybrid of nntp: and news:

Even if we do not change our internal handling, we should document the format
and explain what we were thinking.

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

moving neeti's futured bugs for triaging.