IPV6 URL with percent sign % causes search instead of web request (WSD printers)
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: danweiss, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0
Steps to reproduce:
This issue concerns Firefox and WSD Printers.
In Windows 10, a WSD printer will have with a URL like this: http://[fe80::822b:f9ff:fe6a:d7de%10]:80/WebServices/Device
According to https://superuser.com/questions/99746/why-is-there-a-percent-sign-in-the-ipv6-address, this is caused by Windows adding a percent sign (%) and a number to identify which network the link-local address corresponds to.
But Firefox doesn't accept this kind of URL with a percent sign (%), and instead opens a web search.
If I remove the "%10" from the URL, Firefox visits the page fine.
It seems that the only web browser that accepts this kind of URL is Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Actual results:
Firefox gets confused by the percent sign % in the URL and opens a web search instead of accessing the printer's web interface.
Expected results:
Firefox should ignore or discard the percent sign % and local network identifier number if it appears after a link-local IPV6 address.
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Comment 1•1 year ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Updated•1 year ago
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I would really like this fixed, I need it a couple times a week. I am forced to use an old copy of ie and prevent it's upgrade or (run an old browser in a vm) as it is the only browser that works.
Addition Info: In my case there are 500 to 1000 devices in the building and they sometimes decide to fallback to a static out-of-box ipv4 address and causing conflicts. making it impossible to get to device webpage and reset the IP. The link local ipv6 gets me there without climbing the ladder.
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