302950 - Support for IETF URN Scheme (RFC2648)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 178133

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Tristan Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

This is a request for a user to be able to access IETF documents referenced by
`href' or `cite' attributes with values of an ISSN URN in (X)HTML documents.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1a. Click on a hyperlink of the form urn:ietf:*, or
1b. Right-click on an element that has a cite attribute with content of the form
urn:ietf:* and select "Properties".
Actual Results:  
1a. A dialog appears stating that "URN is not a registered protocol", or
1b. A dialog appears but the URN isn't displayed correctly (Bug 175074) and
isn't a hyperlink.

Expected Results:  
A user should be able to click on an IETF hyperlink on a page (or click on an
IETF hyperlink within the element properties dialog on some text on a page
quoted from a periodical) and be taken to the relevant IETF document.  The
actual resource to search should be specified by a user preference, but by
default the browser should take the user to the "official" IETF home of the
document.  See the sample resolver in RFC 2648 for how to implement this.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Tristan: The next time you move bugs from one Product/Component to another,
please check "Reassign bug to owner and QA contact of selected component" so the
Assigned and QA field get reseted.

Comment 2

[Daniel de Wildt]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178133 ***

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

this bug is about urn:ietf, not a duplicate

Comment 4

[Daniel de Wildt]

(In reply to comment #3)
> this bug is about urn:ietf, not a duplicate

I understood bug 178133 also as an RFE to implement RFC2648, even if only the
rfc-part is mentioned there. OK, maybe I'm wrong, and this bug is (only) a
superset. Thanks for the correction.

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

sorry, you were right, I didn't look close enough.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178133 ***

Comment 6

[benc]

V/dupe.