122559 - Qualiac ERP - # turned into %23 when passed to mozilla as a parameter

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect, P3)

Description

[Franck Routier]

In the Qualiac ERP, the html on line documentation fails when Mozilla is the
default browser.

Qualiac wants to open something like :

'v:\qualiac\hlp\qualiac\fr\ode\cs\oeisae.html#4866;'

but Mozilla tells me it can't find the following url :

'v:/qualiac/hlp/qualiac/fr/ode/cs/oeisae.html%234866;'

It seems # is interpreted as %23, which is not right.

Is it clear enought, or do you need more informations ?

Franck Routier

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Please always include build ID in bug-reports.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

url parsing/escaping issue...

Comment 3

[Andreas Otte]

What qualiac want's to do here seems wrong:

It should open:

file:///v:/qualiac/hlp/qualiac/fr/ode/cs/oeisae.html#4866

which should work fine, but my guess is that

v:\qualiac\hlp\qualiac\fr\ode\cs\oeisae.html#4866;

is not a valide filepath, 

v:\qualiac\hlp\qualiac\fr\ode\cs\oeisae.html

would be.

So either feed mozilla with a file url or with a filepath, but not with a mix.
In this case v:\qualiac\hlp\qualiac\fr\ode\cs\oeisae.html#4866; is seen as a
filename and escaped accordingly, the # gets escaped to not mix it up with the
ref part of the url. 

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

andreas: of course!  marking INVALID.

Comment 5

[Andreas Otte]

Not so fast ... there was once a time we could handle this kind of stuff ... in
an earlier version of the URIFixup code. But that was dropped in favour of using
the normal conversion stuff to create a file url. I don't say go back .. that
code had it's (big) problems too, but obviously other browsers can handle this.
Maybe there is a way to do it, I will think about it.

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

fair enough.

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

-> andreas

Comment 8

[Andreas Otte]

After some thinking ...

# is a valid character inside filenames on windows. So how can mozilla know if
the # is part of the filename or part of the ref in a damaged url? There is no
way around that and doing a normal filepath conversion on the string after
everything else has failed seems okay to me. 

I suggest prepending the given path with a file:/// to make it clear to mozilla
that you want to feed it a file url. Then the ref will work ...

Marking invalid again ... fix Qualiac ERP instead ...

Comment 9

[Darin Fisher]

should this be reassigned to tech evangelism?

Comment 10

[Andreas Otte]

Right ...

Comment 11

[Andreas Otte]

reassign to the right owner ...

Comment 12

[Franck Routier]

Hi,

I submited a bug report to Qualiac.

They sholud correct this ASAP.

However, MSIE manages to handle the wrong "URL" form, although # is a valid
character in windows filenames... They must be trying several solutions (first
file, then URL, ...). I wonder what would happen if I create a windows file
corresponding exactly to the "URL" qualiac asks for ???

Comment 13

[Andreas Otte]

Yes, that would be fun ... seriously I have something similar in mind (doing
several trys with different approaches) for a reimplementation of the fixup code
in mind, but that is not likely to happen anytime soon ...

Comment 14

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

New Component

Comment 15

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

other default owner

Comment 16

[Eric Murphy]

Are there any other possible work arounds for this problem? Using scripts of 
some clever sort?

Comment 17

[Andreas Otte]

If you can change the program Qualiac calls when opening the documentation file
you can change that to a script which prepends file:/// to the path and then
calls mozilla with it.

Comment 18

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

is this still an issue ?

Comment 19

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

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