286890 - Punycode not displayed for IDN when network.IDN_show_punycode == true and network.enableIDN == false

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283586

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Daniel C]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050319 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050319 Firefox/1.0+

Even when IDN support is disabled (network.enableIDN == false,) I believe
punycode should be displayed if network.IDN_show_punycode == true.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(With network.IDN_show_punycode == true and network.enableIDN == false.)

1. Load up the provided testcase.
2. Hover over the link and observe status-bar text.
3. Follow the link and observe the location-bar text.
Actual Results:  
Status bar doesn't display punycode. Location bar doesn't display punycode.

Expected Results:  
Both should have displayed the punycode even though IDN support was disabled.

In this testcase a user may be led to believe that the real PayPal website is
not working, as the text looks very similar to 'paypal'. In fact, it's a
completely different website that is not being displayed because IDN support is
disabled. Perhaps a new IDN error message might also help this situation...

Comment 1

[Daniel C]

Attachment: IDN testcase.

Contains a link looking like 'paypal.com.' but actually linking to an IDN.

Comment 2

[Daniel C]

Attachment: IDN Testcase 2.

Testcase containing link to IDN website, but looking similar to 'paypal.com.'
when punycode is not displayed.

Comment 3

[Zook Valem]

This is a duplicate of bug #283586 based on the comments here and there...

Comment 4

[Zook Valem]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283586 ***