1813919 - URL containing spaces are treated as search terms

Status: NEW

(Fenix :: Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[Jeff Boek [:boek]]

From github: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3306.

Steps to reproduce

• Open the search/address bar
• Type "http://example.com/foo bar"

Expected behavior

• The page "http://example.com/foo bar" is opened

Actual behavior

• A Google search for "http://example.com/foo bar" is made

You might wonder why the hell one would open an url with spaces in them. Well, originally here's what happened to me: I opened the search/address bar, and used the QR code scanner, to scan a QR code. The url the QR code decoded to contained spaces. So I was brought to a google search rather than what I was supposed to see.

Device information

• Android device: Nexus 5
• Fenix version: 1.0.1923 (Build #11590615 68.0-20190604110028)

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Comment 1

[Master ? [:masterquestionable]]

    Implementation hint:
    What matches /^[a-z\d]{1,32}:\/\// would likely to be an intended URI.

Comment 2

[Master ? [:masterquestionable]]

    Also note [ https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5403 ]:
    It is also entirely possible for the search term just to be an URI: e.g. [ https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=${Term} ].

Comment 3

[normanrogers]

I'm affected by this bug when using Wikipedia for example:

Entering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main Page with a space in between Main and Page in the URL bar. I have to use an alternative browser when editing Wikipedia on mobile because of this bug.

Comment 5

[Delia Pop (Android QA)]

The behaviors mentioned in the initial report and in Comment 3 can be reproduced in the latest releases: Nightly 132.0a1, Beta 131.0b4, release 130.0.

Comment 6

[Rhys Perry]

Just adding some perspective here that fixing this would probably break my workflow a little bit (XKCD#1172 moment :P). If I'm trying to search for a URL in a search engine, I usually paste it into the search bar and append something like " a" to it.

Not a huge issue because I can always prepend the URL, but thought it worth adding another perspective.