Closed Bug 1323148 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

On Windows, Firefox could not find the native messaging host if there is white space in the path (in Windows registry)

Categories

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

50 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1321637

People

(Reporter: ttt43ttt, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.75 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: Follow the steps on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_messaging to register the native messaging host in Windows registry. REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\NativeMessagingHosts\ping_pong" /ve /d "C:\path to\ping_pong.json" /f Actual results: If there is white space in the path of <host>.json, Firefox could not connect to the native messaging host. Expected results: Firefox should handle the white space properly, as Chrome does.
Component: Untriaged → WebExtensions: Untriaged
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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