246530 - keywords don't work if they contain a period

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mikel Ward]

The internet keywords information page
<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html> suggests that any
string consisting of multiple whitespace separated words or any single word that
is not a valid URL will be handled by the internet keywords system.  This sounds
very useful, and is what I had enabled using the prefs UI.

If I enter a search term containing a period (.) such as "mozilla user.js" and
press enter I get an alert dialog with the following text:
"The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded"

I would really like this to cause a keyword search as the documentation leads me
to believe.  I also can't think of a situation where a valid URL could contain
literal whitespace (it would have to be % escaped), so it shouldn't be ambiguous
as far as I can see.

Currently using Mozilla Seamonkey 1.6 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510).

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414] (release) (W2Ksp4)

Confirming, on Windows, with |keyword.enabled = true|.

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[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9] (release) (W2Ksp4)

WorksForMe, with |keyword.enabled = true|.

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[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15pre) Gecko/2008060503 BonEcho/2.0.0.15pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008060507 Minefield/3.0pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008060802 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)

WorksForMe, by default.