176327 - Dragging and dropping a URL from a web page in to the program Net Vampire produces an "Invalid URL" error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63177

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Dragging a URL from a page viewed in Mozilla and dropping it on to Net Vampire 
results in an "Invalid URL" message from Net Vampire. You can get Net Vampire 
here:
http://download.com.com/3000-2071-910765.html?tag=lst-0-1
The application has no problem receiving dropped URL's from Internet Explorer 
on the same system.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Net Vampire
2. Go to a page that has a link to a file to download (i.e., rather than 
another web page)
3. Drag the link from the web page and drop it on to Net Vampire's client area

Actual Results:  
Net Vampire gives the error message "Invalid URL", and opens a dialogue box 
for you to correct it. In the dialogue box, the URL field just reads "h".

Expected Results:  
Provided Net Vampire with the correct URL.

I have found this bug to occur on both Windows XP and Windows 98, I haven't 
tried it in any other versions of Windows. Mozilla has had this bug since 1.0 
(it's the main  reason I've not yet switched to Mozilla as my primary browser).

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

This is a 3rd-party application problem.  Mozilla won't be changin their URL
formats to match Net Vampire, so you'd probably do better to inform them of the
issue.

INVALID

Comment 2

[Mark]

Net Vampire has been correctly handling dragged and dropped URL's from other
browsers, so I'd consider this a Mozilla bug surely? Would it be a bug if other
applications experienced the same error?

Comment 3

[Mark]

I'm requesting that this bug be reconsidered. I was wrong to title this bug as 
Net Vampire specific, I've found it also occurs in Microsoft Word and Internet 
Explorer (perverse I know, but many apps use embedded IE windows). 
Mozilla is clearly doing something differently than Internet Explorer when 
dropping a URL, so I would expect there to be more applications out there that 
are not compatible with Mozilla.

Comment 4

[Adrian Buckley]

This is a dupe of Bug 63177 and Bug 106708.
This has now been FIXED.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63177 ***