167707 - Copy Link Location %-escapes some characters

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 155415

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[ValShaq]

Open a page with a "rewritten" link in it,
e.g. https://www.jump.net?goto=http://other.address.org/action?foo=bar
If you move the mouse over the link, it will be displayed correctly,
if you click on it, the page will correctly be opened.
But if you choose "Copy Link Location" from the context menu (because you don't
want to be redirected but to open a new tab etc.) all special characters 
_after_ the first = will be coded into "quoted printable" --> the link will
become unusable because it'll look like
https://www.jump.net?goto=http://other.address.org/action%3Ffoo%3Dbar

Comment 1

[James Ross]

WFM on Moz 1.2a (build 2002090708) on Win2000.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM with 2002 090708 trunk on WinXP with the first link in comment 0.  Copying
and pasting does not escape anything.  Note that the status bar incorrectly
/unescapes/ the second link (bug 150620).  Bug 150620 doesn't explain why
clicking a link would work while copying and pasting it to the address bar would
not work.

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155415 ***

Comment 4

[benc]

V/dupe.
not a perfect dupe, but same idea, we escape various characters for a reason,
then display them only in status as unescaped.