257891 - Problem with openurl if target URL is of the type myfile.html#mytag

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[E Jägervall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

I try to start mozilla as follows:

mozilla -remote 'openURL(/home/develop/eja/test.html#950135)'

This results in an error message window telling that "The file
/home/develop/eja/test.html#950135 could not be found"

and an additional error on the console:

Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error

It appear that it is the tag (#950135) that it is the problem. Without the tag
the file loads correctly, but as soon as there are a tag the load fails. (I have
checked that the tag exists and it is not a problem to load the file with tag if
you enter it in the browser

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start mozilla
2. Try to access a tag in a html file with mozilla -remote
'openURL(<myfile>#<mytag>)'
3.

Actual Results:  
Error message and the page was not loaded

Expected Results:  
Page correctly loaded

Comment 1

[E Jägervall]

It seems that the problem is related to that 'file://' was not used!

With 'file://' it works as expected with test.html#950135

Without 'file://' it does not work for test.html#950135, but it works for
test.html (ie without the tag)

So maybe this isn't a bug, but that decision I leave to someone else with better
knowledge :-)

best regards Erik Jägervall

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

your analysis is correct.
if you use a file path here, the #mytag is interpreted as part of the filename,
and that file does not exist (well, most likely not.) filenames do not have a
concept of fragment identifiers. use urls for that.

this is invalid.