217370 - Using "|" as URI separator breaks some links, including yahoo mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 221445

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ken Meech]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Running Yahoo Canada Messenger version 5,5,0,1254.  Click on New Messages and
get an error message.  Click ok and several pages open in tabs, none are the
yahoo mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click New Messages in Yahoo Canada Messenger 5,5,0,1254.
2.  Click ok on error messagebox.
3.

Actual Results:  
1.  Error message www.%26iz=1%26r=17%26lg=us%26intl=ca&.t=t=z=ae7s could not be
found
2.  Opens three tab pages:  my.yahoo.com, www.thirtythreedegrees.com, about:blank

Expected Results:  
Open mail.yahoo.com and log in using the username I signed into yahoo messenger
with.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Extensions installed such as TBE?
What is the error message in question?

I don't believe this is going to be a bug in Firebird, but more info would be good.

Comment 2

[Donnie Cranford]

Friend of mine using FB 0.7 RC2 is seeing this exact same bug

suggest fixing prior to 0.7

Asa, please add this to blocking 0.7+

Comment 3

[Donnie Cranford]

Attachment: This is what the error message looks like

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Works for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5)
Gecko/20030925 Firebird/0.7 and the same version of Yahoo Messenger in the
initial bug report.

Unless you are the developer or part of the QA team, don't mess with
priorities/blocker status/target milestone.  This will not be fixed for 0.7, for
the following reasons:

1) this is anything but a blocker bug.  Limited confirmation, only two people
known to experience it, and linked to a specific third party application.  Its
not a frequent crasher/dataloss bug, nor is it extremely high-visibility.  One
or both of those criteria would be needed to hold back the release at this
stage, especially for a pre-1.0 milestone.

2) Much more serious/visible bugs were already pushed to 0.8 due to lack of time
to fix before release.  0.7 is still pre-1.0, there's plenty of time to fix
minor bugs before 1.0.

3) since this works fine for others, information on installed extensions,
testing on a clean profile, and information on the pages that appear (always the
same? if its multiple tabs, are they always the same tabs?) is absolutely
required to effectively triage and/or confirm the bug.  This might not and very
likely is not a bug in the default build of Firebird.  It could be a system
issue or an extension acting up.  Neither is an actual bug in Firebird, and the
bug should not be confirmed until such time as it can be replicated under
controlled and appropriate conditions.

reverting improper changes

Comment 5

[alanjstr]

confirmed Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031003
Firebird/0.7 with a slew of extensions.

For me, the second tab is http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=47
meaning it did a URL of 47, which FB didn't understand so it did a search. 
Perhaps for the initial reporter it did an I Feel Lucky (the default).

Steps to reproduce
1) close FB
2) run YIM
3) get new mail
4) click on pop-up or the the mail icon in the tray
5) 3 tabs popped up

Comment 6

[alanjstr]

Confirmed with a clean dir and new profile.  

My popup says www.%26r=8g%26lg=us%26=intl=us&.t=t=z=zaig (which unescaped is
www.&r=8g&lg=us&=intl=us&.t=t=z=zaig)

The middle tab went to http://www.black47.com/ confirming that its doing the
default search.  

Comment 7

[alanjstr]

Confirmed on Firebird/0.7+ latest win32 (10/02?)

Yahoo Messenger 5, 6, 0, 1339
MyYahoo Module 5,6,0,500

I wonder if this changed when yahoo recently changed their protocol.  

Comment 8

[alanjstr]

works fine with the browser already open.  Next stop ... seamonkey

Comment 9

[alanjstr]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031003

Comment 10

[alanjstr]

However, it WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5)
Gecko/20031003 Firebird/0.7
if I uncheck the "Automatically sign me in to Yahoo Mail, Address Book and
Calendar when I click on a link to them from Messenger."

So it could be something about it trying to pass the URL

<url removed>

Comment 11

[Dawn Endico]

marking confidential because someone accidently posted sensitive info here

Comment 12

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

okay, the bug is in yahoo's URL that it passes to Firebird to log into mail,
since it contains | characters, which Firebird interprets as separators. 
Really, since | is a valid character (RFC 2396 doesn't reserve it, I verified
with darin on IRC) Firebird is in the wrong here.

Either we need to send multiple homepage URLs to multiple prefs,  with an
integer pref for how many are currently set (since if we go from 4 to 3, we
couldn't delete browser.homepage.URL.4, just limit the loop to the number of
active homepages) or we need to come up with a different separator that's not a
valid URI character and can still be passed to Firebird on startup, however I'm
not sure if we need to support multiple pages from external apps/command line

The workaround is to open Firebird before checking mail.

also, removing reporter/cc list visibility for now

Comment 13

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Someone please file a new bug. This bug is about to go away (confidential
information?) I'll be moving this bug to an inaccessable group in the next few
hours. 

Comment 14

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Bug 221445 filed.  Thanks Asa.

Comment 15

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

confidential information has been removed from the bug.  removing the
confidential flag and duping to the bug that replaced it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221445 ***