1534374 - history can not search certain visited-pdf-url[11 mar 2019 2:24 pm edt]

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[facebook.com/arnon.jaya]

User Agent: www.facebook.com/arnon.jaya | web-browser=firefox 56.0.2 | operating system=linuxmint 18.2 sonya cinnamon

Steps to reproduce:

11 mar 2019 2:24 pm edt:
using firefox-65.0.1:
i visit
https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/EASA-TCDS-E.050_%28IM%29_Pratt_and_Whitney_PW4000--94_series_engines-01-19102012.pdf
then search keyword:
https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/EASA-TCDS-E.050_%28IM%29_Pratt_and_Whitney_PW4000--94_series_engines-01-19102012.pdf
in firefox-history
then find nothing.
but searching keyword '01-19102012.pdf' can find that webpage.

Comment 1

[Stefan [:StefanG_QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0 (20190205023948)

I was able to reproduce the mentioned behavior on Windows 10 using the latest Nightly and Firefox 66.0. If I use the website URL as a keyword nothing is found. However, if a history search is performed using '01-19102012.pdf' as a keyword the entry is found in history.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

According to RFC3986 and RFC3987 round brackets should not be percent encoded in urls, if you copy the url from the location bar after visiting it, you'll see round brackets are not escaped.
What's the source of the url? The source seems to have a bug where it shouldn't percent encode round brackets, but it does.