20670 - can't navigate through files with ":" in the name

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 15150

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[flee]

repeat by:

   echo hi > /tmp/zzzz:1

   view file:///tmp/
   try to click on "zzzz:1" to view it

what I see:

   nothing happens.  sometimes I see mozilla trying to open "http://zzzz:1"
   but I'm not sure what conditions triggers that.

build id: 1999120216

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Changing component to Networking, although that may not be the problem.  Is this
a URL parsing problem, or is a failure to encode or decode the URL somewhere
else along the line??  (Or something else?)

Comment 2

[Andreas Otte]

I think it's an encoding problem we are currently not doing at all, : is a
special character in URLs like # or ? which has to be escaped to not change the
semantics of the URL as it happens here ...

Comment 3

[Warren Harris]

Mass move of all bugs without target milestones to M13.

Comment 4

[leger]

Resetting QA Contact.

Comment 5

[leger]

Bulk move of all Networking-Core (to be deleted component) bugs to new
Networking component.

Comment 6

[Gagan]

Dup of 15150.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15150 ***

Comment 7

[Jeremy Misavage]

I agree that this is a dup of 15150, I read both.  Marking as verified.