Closed Bug 264443 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

vertical bar character in URL opens multiple tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221445

People

(Reporter: alex, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

urls with pipes in them, if clicked on in outlook, cause firefox to break up the
url at each pipe and open up each fragment in a new tab.

I know that vertical bars are not supposed to be in URLs, but doubleclick ads
sometimes have URLs with the characters in them... they look like this:

http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|32344|0|0|%2a|l;11402342344;0-0;1;1032;45933-120|600;734456835|7345731|2;u=vvl;~sscs=%3fhttp://www.cnn.com/

so if you send an email with this URL to someone with outlook, and they click on
it, 9 tabs will open up in firefox, none of which is the correct url.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set firefox as your default browser
2. open a new mail window in outlook 2000 (might happen with other clients, but
i've only checked outlook)
3. paste in something like this (without the quotes)
"http://www.cnn.com/|http://www.nytimes.com/"
4. click on that link

Actual Results:  
two tabs open up, one with CNN and the other with NYTimes

Expected Results:  
should have tried to load the (obviously broken) url
"http://www.cnn.com/|http://www.nytimes.com/"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221445 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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