208599 - tilde needlessly replaced with %7E in links

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130615

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Stewart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030527
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030527

When creating a link in Composer, and it includes a tilde, it converts that to
%7E.  For example, a link to http://www.foo.com/~superman becomes
http://www.foo.com/%7Esuperman.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a link to a URL that includes a ~ (tilde) character.
2. Examine source code to observe magically converted character

Actual Results:  
~ is converted to %7E in links

Expected Results:  
Mozilla Composer should not convert ~ characters to their equivalent (in
whatever format this is, i can't recall the name for it).  The ~ (tidle) should
remain consistent.

Converting the ~ makes the URL look very strange when a user follows it, as you
have strange symbols and characters in the resulting URL.  It confused me, and
could possibly cause inexperienced users to tell other people an overly complex URL.

It seems that Composer has an automatic character switch feature that converts
illegal URL characters into their legal equivalent.  This is probably especially
useful for " " (spaces) being converted into %20, instead of breaking the URL. 
However, ~ is a completely legitmate URL character, so the regexp (or whatever
determines 'legal' and 'illegal' characters) should be adjusted to include ~ as
a legal character.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130615 ***