205990 - <URL: http://www.example.com/ > yields "URL is not a registered protocol"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 183111

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Stian Grytøyr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When clicking a link such as <URL: http://www.example.com/ > in a news or mail 
message, an alert says "URL is not a registered protocol". This way of 
denoting URLs in email and news messages is becoming increasingly common, and 
it is also recommended in the appendix to RFC1738. 

As a browser which focuses on standards, I think Mozilla should support this 
as well. Most clients do these days.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fire up the news or mail client
2. Open up a message which contains the following text: <URL: 
http://www.example.com/ >
3. Click on the URL
4. Observe the alert box

Actual Results:  
An alert box popped up saying "URL is not a registered protocol".

Expected Results:  
The URL should have been opened in the web browser.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please always try the latest milestone before you report a bug. Thanks



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183111 ***