291496 - URLs with parenthesis / brackets are broken

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236915

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Søren Thing Pedersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

When an URL in a message includes parenthesis / brackets the URL is incompletely
parsed resulting in a broken link when clicked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write yourself a mail with the following URL in the message body :
http://www.test.com/test(oops).html
2. Open received mail and see that the URL is incompletely parsed


Actual Results:  
The URL is parsed as a link to: http://www.test.com/test(oops)

Expected Results:  
The URL should be parsed as a link to: http://www.test.com/test(oops).html

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236915 ***