300188 - cannot use about:cache with Bookmark Keywords

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[baffclan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050708 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050708 Firefox/1.0+

cannot use about:cache with Bookmark Keywords


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a Bookmark Keywords
location : about:cache-entry?client=HTTP&sb=1&key=%s
keyword : haed

2. open "http://www.mozilla.org/"
3. open "haed http://www.mozilla.org/"

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens


Expected Results:  
open "about:cache-entry?client=HTTP&sb=1&key=http://www.mozilla.org/"

if you type "about:cache-entry?client=HTTP&sb=1&key=http://www.mozilla.org/"
in URL bar, can see HTTP-headers.

see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81202#c20

Suite/SeaMonkey have this problem.

Comment 1

[J.P.Klippel]

(for the record using: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b3)
Gecko/20050709 Firefox/1.0+)

I followed the steps to reproduce and it failed, too.
Typing haed http://www.mozilla.org/ results in 
about:cache-entry?client=HTTP&sb=1&key=http%3A%2F%2Fmozilla.org%2F
displayed in the location bar and nothing happens.
If I switch tabs and get back again the location bar says:
haed http://www.mozilla.org/ 
again.

Correcting the encoded url manually back to http://www.mozilla.org/ does work as
expected: about:cache-entry?client=HTTP&sb=1&key=http://www.mozilla.org/

I'd like to add to the Expected behaviour: If the entry does not exist in the
cache the about:cache-entry should IMHO result in an appropriate error message
(when nothing happens, it's quite confusing).

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Comfirmed with SeaMonkey 2005070906-trunk/Win-2K.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It's not working because of the escaping that's done for normal bookmark
keywords. about:cache is hardly a feature meant to be exposed to users, so the
fact that it does nothing on error isn't something that's likely to be fixed.

Being a special url, it takes unescaped input on the querystring, and doing that
for all bookmark keywords is going to break their use pretty badly for most
sites. Making any changes to support a very rarely used feature isn't going to
happen, so this is WONTFIX.

You could always make yourself an extension or bookmarklet to get quick access
to the cache entries.

Comment 4

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

Per comment 3