222820 - Quicksearch doesn't work when the %s is a URI

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 218447

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Pär Forsling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

It is not possible to use a quicksearch bookmark where the searchstring is a
(possibly partial or broken) URI.

Example bookmark:
Name: validation
Location: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s
Keyword: check

When typing for example "check http://someplace.com/" in the location box, you
get an alert that says that "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded". On the
other hand, if you type "check http://someplace.com/index.html" everything works
just fine. Why do firebird try to parse the URI at all? It should just expand
the keyword and put whatever is written after it where the %s is. Oh well, I
guess it's a bit more complicated than that...

BTW, it works just fine in mozilla 1.4, so the behaviour is exclusive to firebird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. (see the details above)

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218447 ***

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified dupe.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change