285021 - Sidebar Search field wrongly rewritten with %-encoded characters

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Greg Colyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

If the search terms contain a colon (e.g. Google search for "xyz site:foo.com"),
the colon is rewritten as %3A which is then treated literally if the search is
re-executed (i.e. as "xyz site%3Afoo.com", which Google does not understand).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the Search tab of the Sidebar.
2. Type search terms including a colon, e.g. "xyz site:foo.com" (without the
quotation marks).
3. Press Enter.

Actual Results:  
Search field is rewritten with "%3A" instead of ":". This breaks the next search
when Enter is pressed again.

Expected Results:  
Search field should be unchanged.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

This is fixed on the trunk. I doubt that this will be fixed on 1.7.x though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236913 ***

Comment 2

[Greg Colyer]

In the light of <http://www.mozilla.org/seamonkey-transition.html>, will trunk
fixes now be ported to the 1.7 branch where possible?

Comment 3

[Greg Colyer]

Still present in 1.7.6. Reopening here because bug 236913 is marked fixed. (If
this is the wrong procedure, please tell me what is the right one.)

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Greg Colyer]

Still present in 1.7.11.