303074 - "Send Link..." - long URL breaks up at question mark (?) or other special character

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[glenn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I am running Firefox for Mac and have discovered the following bug.

When using the command: File>Send Link... 

My email editor (Mail) will open and the link will appear correctly inserted in
the emamil.  However, the recipient of the email usually receives the URL with a
space inserted, thereby disabling the link. 

These links will get sent correctly:
http://www.engadget.com/
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000057052775
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/index.html

These links do not: 
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/index.php#aim-hax0red-or-fuks0rd-fiks0rd-115317
(space inserted after third "-" -- after "...hax0red-or")

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/space/02nasa.html?hp&ex=1123041600&en=9382d2755684e5f3&ei=5094&partner=homepage
(space inserterd after "?")

It appears that certain characters (?, -, | ) trigger this behavior.






Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
See above.

Seems to occur only with complex/long URLs which contain certain characters,
such as "?" "-" "|"

Actual Results:  
This link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/space/02nasa.html?hp&ex=1123041600&en=9382d2755684e5f3&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Will appear in the received email as:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/space/02nasa.html?
hp&ex=1123041600&en=9382d2755684e5f3&ei=5094&partner=homepage




Expected Results:  
No space inserted in the sent URL

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

All of the bugs that sound like this one seem to have been fixed. Could you see
if this still occurs in the latest builds?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 2

[glenn]

(In reply to comment #1)
> All of the bugs that sound like this one seem to have been fixed. Could you see
> if this still occurs in the latest builds?
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

I just tested it again and still have the same problem.

I am currently running: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US;
rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Is this the latest build for Mac?

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

No. The latest builds are the ones that I linked to. The code in the builds you
mentioned is close to being 16 months old minus security fixes and minor patches.

Comment 4

[glenn]

(In reply to comment #3)
> No. The latest builds are the ones that I linked to. The code in the builds you
> mentioned is close to being 16 months old minus security fixes and minor patches.

I installed the DeerPark build from the link you provided. Evidently the problem
persists. An example link that had a space added (after the "/" before "OPINION":

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050804/OPINION01/508040310/1004

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

I think this is a e-mail client problem. On Mozilla, the URL is enclosed with <
and >, so it doesn't have the problem. This is not the case for Thunderbird.
Reporter (glenn), what e-mail client do you have?

Comment 6

[glenn]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I think this is a e-mail client problem. On Mozilla, the URL is enclosed with <
> and >, so it doesn't have the problem. This is not the case for Thunderbird.
> Reporter (glenn), what e-mail client do you have?

I'm using Mail,v 2.0.3 (Apple).

Comment 7

[Kevin Brosnan]

Likey the same as Camino Bug 200040

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

duping

Glenn says "... it seems to be working now."

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200040 ***

Comment 9

[Stuart Morgan]

This can't be a dup of bug 200040; that was fixed above the level of shared code.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Glenn, please comment as to what date+verison this began working for you

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM per reporter