140025 - colon in relativelink silently fails

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86486

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

From IRC:

Consider the following link:

<a href="anything:anything.html">anything</a>

Clicking on that link doesn't do anything. : is not reserved from within a path
name (rfc2396).

I'm guessing that we're parsing that as scheme="anything", port="anything.html",
but why aren't we reporting an invalid scheme, then? Is it because the port is
non-numeric?

Is this even valid, without encoding the ':'? Its only ambigous if we allow
"http:foo.html" urls, which we don't.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

we allow javascript:foo urls, data:foo urls, and so forth....

For some reason we never put up invalid scheme alerts for links in a page that
are clicked....

Comment 2

[benc]

bug 100176.

Some people think we do have error handling for this, but it is only for URL
bar, via docshell, and only for really obvious stuff that ends w/ a "://" (try
invalid://)

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

-> future

Comment 4

[Andrew Hagen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86486 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

V/dupe.