167455 - triumviratplus.com - Mozilla doesn't follows links with russian symbols

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Description

[Boris Kovalenko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827

Mozilla doesn't follows links with russian symbols and MSIE does.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to URL reported
2. Select in the left frame any link with russuian symbol (i.e. "Детская мебель")
3. Click on it

Actual Results:  
Mozilla sends malformed URL and I got "You don't have permission to access
/..\cgi-bin\baza_htm.cgi on this server".

Expected Results:  
Should send correctly formed URL

Comment 1

[Boris Kovalenko]

URL for testing: http://www.triumviratplus.com/fr.htm

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The russian symbols are not an issue.  The site has the following code:

<a
href="http://www.triumviratplus.com/..\cgi-bin\baza_htm.cgi?tip=%EC%FF%E3%EA%E0%FF">

When it means to have 

<a href="http://www.triumviratplus.com/cgi-bin/baza_htm.cgitip=%EC%FF%E3%EA%E0%FF">

(Note the forward slashes instead of backslashes).  IE treats '\' as the same as
'/' in URLs (which is completely wrong and breaks a number of sites).  We do
not, since the two are completely different.

Comment 3

[Sergey Sokoloff]

I've just reproduced the bug, using the 6th active button ("CTEHKI/I"), URL
http://www.triumviratplus.com/..\cgi-bin\baza_htm.cgi?tip=%F1%F2%E5%ED%EA%E0
does really produce different results. Direct click results in Forbidden ("You
don't have permission to access /..\cgi-bin\baza_htm.cgi on this server.");
choosing "Open link in new window" from Mozilla context menu, or direct typing
http://www.triumviratplus.com/../cgi-bin/baza_htm.cgi?tip=%F1%F2%E5%ED%EA%E0 in
address bar will bring the following:

============== Quote begin ==============

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Invalid URI in request GET /../cgi-bin/baza_htm.cgi?tip=%F1%F2%E5%ED%EA%E0 HTTP/1.0

Apache/1.3.26 Server at www.triumviratplus.com Port 80

============== Quote end ==============

Probably www.triumviratplus.com webserver is misconfigured; but Mozilla anyway
appears to be sending some different GET request depending on which frame is the
target for hyperlink address, thus producing different results.

Comment 4

[Sergey Sokoloff]

http://www.triumviratplus.com/cgi-bin/baza_htm.cgitip=%EC%FF%E3%EA%E0%FF
provided in Additional Comment #2 From Boris Zbarsky (2002-09-09 02:29) is
incorrect (containing a typo) and results in Error 404;
http://www.triumviratplus.com/cgi-bin/baza_htm.cgi?tip=%EC%FF%E3%EA%E0%FF should
be used instead.

And, yes, http://www.triumviratplus.com/fr.htm has incorrect hyperlinks using
backslashes and will work with MSIE only. Probably webmaster's trick to build a
MSIE-dedicated website? ;-)

Comment 5

[Nikolai Prokoschenko]

Written to webmaster at [e-mail]. Awaiting answer.

Comment 6

[Nikolai Prokoschenko]

Mass-accepting bugs - sorry for the spam. I'm back :)

Comment 7

[Nikolai Prokoschenko]

Quitting Evangelism due to lack of time...

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> other

Comment 9

[shattered]

There are no more malformed links on this site.

Comment 10

[shattered]

Submitter's e-mail bounces, could someone please close this bug?

Comment 11

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.