304197 - FTP request are made in UTF-8 instead of user selected encoding

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251892

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[eugene]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050809 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050809 Firefox/1.0+

When browsing an FTP site which uses encoding different from the default
encoding on my system (which is UTF-8), even though it is possible to set the
correct encoding using View->Character Encoding menu, it is unpossible to follow
the links. All you get is an alert about non-existent file/directory. I guess
this is because Firefox sends request in UTF-8, instead of selected encoding,
but I may be wrong. I tried this on sites with filenames in KOI8-R and CP1251
encodings, but probably this also applies to the other charsets as well.
In version 1.0.3 all worked well, the problem started when I switched to nightly
builds.
The URL that demonstrates the problem is just an example. It happens on any ftp
server which uses non-utf8 encoding.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure that your system locale is set to UTF-8 (not necessary?)
2. Navigate to ftp://admin.tomsk.ru/tomsk or any other ftp site which uses
cp1251 or koi8-r character set
2. Try to follow any link which includes russian characters (with and without
switching the encoding from menu - the result will be the same).
3. That's it.

Actual Results:  
Unable to follow the links. (550 no such file or directory)

Comment 1

[eugene]

Attachment: Screenshot of an error message I get

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of/related to Core bug 297395 and Core bug 251892?

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251892 ***