Closed Bug 236132 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

"View Source" does not work with IDN domain names

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201040

People

(Reporter: PYDLA6.login, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Firefox supports IDNA (Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications - see
rfc3490 for the interested readers). But the "source view" of Firefox didn't.

If you enter "http://www.öko.de" in the address field, Firefox makes the
conversion as described in rfc3491 (nameprep) and rfrc3492 (punycode). If you
want to view the source of the page, this conversion failed.

If you're behind a firewall/proxy you get maybe an error message like

<b>"Unknown host specified: www.%c3%b6ko.de (Authoritative host not found)"</b>

The same bug is true for Mozilla.

[TOM]

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter http://www.&ouml;ko.de in the address field (The page is displayd correct).
2. Press [ctrl+u] or select "Page Source" from the "View" menu.



Actual Results:  
Firefox (Mozilla) ends with an error message.

Expected Results:  
Show the source code.
http://www.&ouml;ko.de means http://www.öko.de - the german o with diaeresis. I
used the entity &ouml; because not every reader/developer use iso_8859-1 or
iso_8859-15 as default character encoding.

[TOM]


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201040 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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