129319 - URL with colon causes tables to not display

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Robert Larmon]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

The tables on this page do not display if using Mozilla.  They do display with
Netscape 4.7 and IE 6.0.  Also, the page source does not view the actual page
source, but what it is able to view instead.  The page source does show up
properly in IE 6.0.  Viewing this page as a file without the colons displays the
tables properly.

If you click on http://128.125.42.148:211/z39m, the table views properly.         

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on URL
2.That's it.
3.

Actual Results:  The tables do not display, but the rest of the web page shows
up fine.

Expected Results:  The tables should display

This has been reproduced on 4 PCs, running Win98SE and WinXP.  Browsers
reproduced on: Mozilla listed above and Netscape 6.21.

Comment 1

[Robert Larmon]

Attachment: source of file that lists table

This file lists the table that do not display.

Comment 2

[Andreas Otte]

I think this happens because we escape the colons in the filename segment of the
url. Since : is no reserved character (RFC 2396) inside the path segment (which
the filename is a part) we are free to do so and we must currently do so for
other reasons (detecting schemes). %3A and : are equivalent in this context and
the failure for not recognizing that has to be found on the server ...

Comment 3

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

 I see no difference between IE and NS6 build : 2002050606 build on WIN2K in the
given URL. I could see all the contents. Marking WFM. Please reopen if you think
that mozilla still doesnt work.