Closed Bug 188237 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Unable to href to local file containing '?' in filename

Categories

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 102603

People

(Reporter: t.bubeck, Assigned: dougt)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203 Writing a href which points to a local file containing '?' in its name and accessing the link results in mozilla showing: The file /tmp/a?b cannot be found (e.g. <a href="file:///tmp/a?b">). What I found out: ================= According to rfc1738 section 5 it is allowed to use the character '?' (and many others in local filenames): ; FILE fileurl = "file://" [ host | "localhost" ] "/" fpath ; FTP (see also RFC959) ftpurl = "ftp://" login [ "/" fpath [ ";type=" ftptype ]] fpath = fsegment *[ "/" fsegment ] fsegment = *[ uchar | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" ] ftptype = "A" | "I" | "D" | "a" | "i" | "d" It seems, that mozilla is cutting off any part of a local filename including and following the '?'. This means, that file:///tmp/a?b and file:///tmp/a are treated equal. Maybe this bug is a duplicate or something similar to BUG #161352 ? This bug occurs, when trying to access local copies from web sites retrieved with "wget" if the site uses "php" or anything else using parameters... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. write a page pointing to file:///tmp/a?b 2. touch '/tmp/a?b' 3. Access the link Actual Results: The file /tmp/a?b cannot be found. Expected Results: Open the page without any error
The bug also occurs on mozilla-1.3a.
If you consult with RFC2396, wich is updated RFC1738, you could find: 3.3. Path Component The path may consist of a sequence of path segments separated by a single slash "/" character. Within a path segment, the characters "/", ";", "=", and "?" are reserved. Each path segment may include a sequence of parameters, indicated by the semicolon ";" character. The parameters are not significant to the parsing of relative references. I think RFC2396 should be taking in prior for this case.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Please try escaping the "?" if you agree w/ my dupe, then please VERIFY this bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102603 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
You are right. '?' (and others) should be escaped. I tried it and everything worked. No bug in Mozilla. Sorry for "disturbing"... :-)
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Whiteboard: DUPEME
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