188781 - Absolute Link with space before ending frowardslash do nothing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 187603

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[thomas l from z]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (loebeks version) Gecko/20020915
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (loebeks version) Gecko/20020915

an absolute link in a webpage like "http://www.mozilla.org /", note space before
endslash, should open the site or display an error message like i type the wrong
link in URLbar and press enter alert:"The URL is not valid and can not be loaded!"



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to www.toptotop.org
2.Klick on the Link Our sponsors: Garmin-GPS
3.nothing is happen Browser should open the page

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
Errormessage or open the link?

Comment 1

[Ruslan Ismailov]

According to RFC 2396 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt), space symbol should
be excluded from URI. So it lead nowhere, and herefore lead for nowhere. If
somebody want to use such link, it should be transformed into escaping sequence
(see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/necko_url.html for reference).

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

over to networking; this is a dup.

Comment 3

[benc]

Bug 45953 shows that for non-space, whitespace characters, we do what RFC1738
says, which is we strip whitespace to form the URl.

Bug 12277 documents how we escape spaces in the URL, but recent bugs suggest we
do not do this for the hostname field.

I thought there were more bugs on this topic, but I've duped to the one I could
find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187603 ***

Comment 4

[benc]

VERIFIED/dupe

cleared URL b/c that link was fixed.