Closed Bug 300576 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

# character is causing a truncation of all chararcters after it in error message.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300577

People

(Reporter: desaiullas, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; FunWebProducts)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0

when the user enters the following address in address field of the 
firefox "www.yahoo.###" all the characters after # gets truncated in the error 
message that will be thrown to the user.

This bug can be considered as error handling as well as  relaibilty bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the firefox browser.
2.Enter following web address in the address field "www.yahoo.###"
3.Press Go
4.Error message with # truncating all the characters after it in the error 
message.

Actual Results:  
following error message will thrown to the user.

"www.yahoo. couldnot be found. Please check name and try again"
here # is trucating all character after it.

Expected Results:  
following error message should appear.

"www.yahoo.### could not be found.please check name and try again"

OS : Windows 2000
firefox version :1.0.4


some other examples where this bug can be found.
www.#yahoo.com
www.yahoo.#**&^&^&^
Dupe of 300577

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300577 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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