1421451 - Wrong "Request URL" value in Firefox Developer Tools > Network

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1314184

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, defect)

Description

[Maarten Bruins]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

My Firefox version is: 57.0 (64-bit) up to date

For example: http://www.example.com/%C3%A4

Firefox Developer Tools > Network > click row > Headers

This will show:

Request URL: http://www.example.com/ä

Chrome is showing:

Request URL: http://www.example.com/%C3%A4

URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. And the "Request URL" is about what will be sent over the internet. This is not ä, but %C3%A4. So in contrast to Chrome, Firefox is not consistent with the definitions. This can be really confusing for people who are new to programming.

After typing this bug, i saw: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314184, probably the same, but this one is 8 months old and still has "Status: UNCONFIRMED". I'm pretty new here, so maybe that's normal, but 8 months sounds pretty long to me (too long).


Actual results:

"Request URL" has wrong value.


Expected results:

"Request URL" should have right value.

Comment 1

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Thanks for report, this looks like bug 1314184 and I agree we should solve it