302591 - -remote openURL fails if protocol not included

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 290782

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Andrew Schultz]

If the openURL is used and passed a hostname or a URL without a protocol in
general, firefox fails to handle it.

% firefox -remote "openURL(www.mozilla.org)"
Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/browser/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js#195

assumes cmdLine.resolveURI will "work".  xremote code in xpfe jumps through
hoops if the string doesn't resolve to a URI and passes it on as-is.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/components/xremote/src/XRemoteService.cpp#594

This worked in Firefox 1.0, so it will appear as a regression to upgrading linux
users.  I don't know if external programs depend on this or not.

Comment 1

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

This is a dupe of bug 290782, no?

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

hmm, yes

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 290782 ***