202422 - URL w/ no user and a password -> dir listing w/ incorrect URL

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[benc]

While writing bug 202419, I noticed the following:

STEPS:
click on URL provided. It is an invalid syntax, because you cannot have a
password w/o a username, per RFC 1738

"there is no way to specify a password without
   specifying a user name"

The URL parser discards the user-less password, and goes to
"ftp://ftp.mozilla.org but when parsing the sanitized URL displayed in the
index, you get:


Index of ftp://la.org/

This is cosmetic, the links work, and if you click into a sub directory and then
back up a level, the correct URL is used.

There might be some important aspect of URL parsing that this affects, I leave
that to the experts.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner

Comment 2

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

only critical ftp bugs now