194416 - Netscape 6 cannot recognize "%" in "%uxxxx" in URL as an escape character to unicode character, and still encodes this "%" as "%25".

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 61269

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[princew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 

In our application, we encode unicode character in URL to "%uxxxx".  Netscape 6 
cannot recognize "%" in "%uxxxx" in URL as an escape character to unicode 
character, and still encodes this "%" as "%25", which causes problem for our 
decoding.  

This problem seems being fixed in Netscape 7 and Mozilla 1.2.  I used a psuedo 
url to test it: "http://localhost/s.asp?a=%u0160".
In NS 6, the URL is changed to "http://localhost/s.asp?a=%25u0160" by browser.
In NS 7, the URL is still "http://localhost/s.asp?a=%u0160".

Since our application currently cannot be displayed with NS 7, I cannot really 
test if this problem will be gone with NS 7.  It would be helpful that I could 
get confirmation from you that NS 7 does not encode escape "%" in "%uxxxx" in 
URL.  Could you confirm it?  Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> This problem seems being fixed in Netscape 7 and Mozilla 1.2.

Then it's fixed.  Netscape 7 is the replacement for Netscape 6; Netscape 6 is no
longer being developed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61269 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

verified

and please don't file Netscape bugs of any kind in this database.
We accept only bug reports from 2 week old mozilla.org builds.