241473 - Gopher: email addreses render badly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 240837

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Neil Fraser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

The above URL is a plain text page in gopher space.  The email address at the
bottom is triggering some form of auto-hyperlinking in Mozilla which fails.  In
Netscape 3 (and other gopher browsers) it just prints the email address as plain
text.  Mozilla adds the following:
  <a href="ma"></a>ilto:
A more extreme version of the same error may be seen at this address:
  gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/proxy
Other browsers render it as plain text, Mozilla adds a bunch of very illegal tags.

This error is less than a year old; Mozilla used to print the content as flat
text.  Performing auto-hyperlinking is a good idea, but it should either work
properly or not at all.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Neil Fraser]

Same results on MacOSX.  Setting platform to 'all' and linking with the Gopher
metabug.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040421

Comment 3

[Neil Fraser]

Hmm.  In that case I suspect that the patch for bug 240837 (which was checked in
very recently but is still open) must have already cured this one.  Looks like a
duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240837 ***

Comment 4

[benc]

V/dupe.