202926 - Invalid character in useragent string

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 202918

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Iain Arnell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030422 Firebird Browser/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030422 Firebird™ Browser/0.6

The ™ (TM) character in the Firebird useragent string appears to be confusing
some servers. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter http://www.open.ac.uk/StudentWeb/m206 in URL bar and hit return
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Bad request

Your browser sent a query this server could not understand.

Expected Results:  
Should have opened a 'Sign in for OU computer services' page.

Removing the ™ (TM) characted from the useragent by setting
general.useragent.override="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030422 Firebird Browser/0.6" allows the broswer to work as
expected.

Comment 1

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202918 ***

Comment 2

[noririty]

v.