219252 - network.enableIDN pref behaviour

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221437

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030910

Mozilla 1.4.x and Mozilla 1.5b behaves the same in the following respect.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Mozilla with default prefs
2.open e.g. http://www.lindenstraße.de/
3.switch pref network.enableIDN to true and back to false
4.try again to open the above URL

Actual Results:  
First open works while the site doesn't open the second time.
So IDN is active although the pref is set to false

Expected Results:  
It should behave consistently to the pref.


Is it time to switch IDN on by default?

Comment 1

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

modules/libpref/src/init/all.js contains the pref two times:

line 592:
pref("network.enableIDN", true);

line 652:
pref("network.enableIDN",                   false); // Turn on/off IDN
(Internationalized Domain Name) resolution

Perhaps this is the problem?

Comment 2

[bjoern]

the above mentioned URL is www.lindenstra*german_sz_ligatue*e.de. 
I will open a bugreport for bugzilla that it should be switched to UTF-8 
encoding, otherwise noone can write non-ASCII here :-| 

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

fixed by bug 221437

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221437 ***