235321 - Request: allow pasting RFC1738-encoded URLs

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Tim Smith]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Please allow entering URLs, both into the address bar and via middle-click on the main 
window area, that are in RFC1738 encoding. E.g., <URL:http://whatever>, and handle 
unwrapping wrapped URLs of that form. 
 
If a major browser, such as Firefox, supported this, it might encourage people to start 
actually encoding their URLs that way on Usenet and in email. :-) 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get such an encoded URL on the clipboard 
2. Middle-click in the main window 
3. 
Actual Results:  
It treats it like any other non-URL text 

Expected Results:  
Extract the URL from the pasted text, fix any line wrapping, process the URL.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Stripping line breaks is bug 23485 and should apply even to URLs without <> or
<URL:>.

Comment 2

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

I'm moving this to Core/Event Handling and changing status to NEW.  The devs
will make the decision to implement this or not.