261013 - Fails to verify RSS with captial WWW

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275153

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[jalada]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

When trying to add a subscription to http://WWW.bingwalker.com/index.rdf (copy
and pasted from source on bingwalker archive), Thunderbird sits on "Verifying
Feed". Changing the WWW to lowercase fixes the problem

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to subscribe to http://WWW.bingwalker.com/index.rdf

Actual Results:  
Stays on verifying feed.

Expected Results:  
Verified the feed, and added the feed to the subscriptions.

Comment 1

[David Fraser]

Have confirmed that this is a problem with both 0.8 and 0.9
In fact, the problem seems to occur if there are *any* capital letters in the
domain name:
http://www.Mozillazine.org/contents.rdf causes this problem.
Note that Firefox normalizes the domain name to lower case before querying the
server when retrieving a URL, so Thunderbird should probably be doing the same
here ...

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

does fx normalize just the domain name or the whole url string?

Comment 3

[David Fraser]

Looks like its just the domain thats normalized. I'm not sure whether the
failure happens because of an error resolving the domain / retrieving the
context, but I suspect its more likely to be an error parsing the retrieved file
afterwards when a normalized URL mismatches the retrieved one...

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

punting

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 275153 ***