339638 - Ebay item links not opening correctly beacuse of & being replaced with & in the url

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 287573

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jagjit Walia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

While using a link for an ebay item ,

the  IE opens the item description correctly but firefox fails. I checked the urls
Interant Explorer
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7770880142&sspagename=ADME:L:RTQ:US:1

Firefox
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7770880142&sspagename=ADME:L:RTQ:US:1
Firefox is converting & to & which is causing the problem

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.If ebay sends a mail for an item you have bid or been outbid, it has the link for the item number
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Click the item link and it fails in Ebay saying item not found.

Expected Results:  
The Item description should be displayed

It works correctly in IE

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is probably a problem with how Firefox interacts with your email service rather than a problem with how Firefox interacts with eBay.  What email service or client are you using when you receive these emails from eBay?  (I could guess Hotmail based on your bugzilla ID.)

Comment 2

[Ian]

Seems to be related to bug #287573 which has still not been confirmed....

Comment 3

[Jagjit Walia]

The & is being converted to & in the url when a link to a ebay item is pressed. It worked correctly in netscape as well as IE

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Jagjit Walia]

I just tried with the firefox build 2.004 and still see the problem.It is exactly the same problem as the bug #287573  mentioned by Ian earlier