271374 - incorrect hyperlink created when pasting a url which contains a "}"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133016

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Wouter Dekker]

User-Agent:       Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.8 (20040913) but also Thunderbird 0.9

E.g. pasting http://testserver.nop/my.asp?UID={377FA6E5}&Frames=&Scrolling=1
will only generate a URL of http://testserver.nop/my.asp?UID={377FA6E5 the URL stops before the }.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Press Write
2.Paste "http://testserver.nop/my.asp?UID={377FA6E5}&Frames=&Scrolling=1"
3.Send message to yourself (or look in sent) and abserve to partially underlined the URL
Actual Results:  
Hyperlink incomplete

Expected Results:  
Complete URL including the text after the }

Creating a hyperlink via "Insert - Hyperlink" and than pasting the URL works fine.

Comment 1

[Wouter Dekker]

*** Bug 271375 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

If this changes at all, it will change to stop at the opening brace; 
see bug 218287.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133016 ***