273368 - mailto: links not unescaped anymore

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 277625

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Christian Persch (GNOME) (away; not receiving bug mail)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Galeon/1.3.18.99
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041206

Mailto: links are not unescaped anymore when copying the address with the
context menu. They're still displayed fine in the statusbar, though.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the attached testcase
2. Open context menu on the mailto link
3. Select "Copy Email Address"
4. Paste somewhere

Actual Results:  
Pasted text is: %6D%65%6D%62%65%72%73%40%61%6D%6E%65%73%74%79%2E%6F%72%67%2E%75%6B

Expected Results:  
Pasted text is: [e-mail]


I think this is because of bug 263462, which implemented esc_OnlyNonASCII. It
works fine in 1.7.3.

Comment 1

[Christian Persch (GNOME) (away; not receiving bug mail)]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Caio Tiago Oliveira (asrail)]

Hey guy, you uses encoding UTF-8 in this page and you're pasting in a page with
encoding western.

I made it in a page with encoding werstern and it worked fine.

Your testcase is really works as you said.

Comment 3

[Christian Persch (GNOME) (away; not receiving bug mail)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hey guy, you uses encoding UTF-8 in this page and you're pasting in a page with
> encoding western.
> 
> I made it in a page with encoding werstern and it worked fine.
> 
> Your testcase is really works as you said.

I'm sorry I don't understand what you're saying here...
Whether I set encoding to ISO-8850-1 or UTF-8 in View->Character Encoding
doesn't matter; in both cases the copied address is %-encoded instead of plaintext.

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Christian, it helps to CC people when you think they might have attributed to
this bug...

Comment 5

[Jungshik Shin]

Hmm.. I wonder why it's escaped in the first place...

Comment 6

[Christian Persch (GNOME) (away; not receiving bug mail)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Hmm.. I wonder why it's escaped in the first place...

I got this testcase from http://www.amnesty.org.uk/members/index.shtml on the
"E-mail: [e-mail]" link.

I guess it's a crude 'anti-spam' technique.

Comment 7

[Jungshik Shin]

Aha... I thought somehow Mozilla did that escaping.. It's the page author..
Downgrading the severity to 'minor' because presumably that is not done very often

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dupping forwatrd to bug with (checked-in) patch.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277625 ***