150959 - if URL has ">" it it history will not update correctly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

if you go to http://gemal.dk/test/link.html and rightclick on the "test1" and
say open in new tab and do the same thing with "test2" and the reload the page
you'll see that the test1 link stays blut like we never visited it before.

20020609

Comment 1

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

This is global history

Comment 2

[jag (Peter Annema)]

-> default

Comment 3

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

I see your problem with Linux. And I appreciate Denmarks's victory;-)

But: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt

2.2. URL Character Encoding Issues
[...]

   Unsafe:
[...]
   The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the
   delimiters around URLs in free text
[...]
   All unsafe characters must always be encoded within a URL.

So I claim this bug is INVALID. It might be a bug to use this URL in the first
place. Of cource, Mozilla does encode it, but maybe it should refuse the link.

pi