435836 - Exclamation mark at the end of a URL is not linkified

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Marc-Etienne VARGENAU]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

With Firefox, you go page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!

In file menu, select "Send a link to page"

This opens a compose window in Thunderbird. Thunderbird is configured to send mail in plain text.

Send the mail.

Read the mail and click on the link.

The bug is that the link does not work because the exclamation mark is not
made part of the link. (Well, in that precise case, you get the page as
Wikipedia has a redirection, but that misses the point.)

I do not know if the but is in Firefox or Thunderbird.
Perhaps the link should be URL-encoded by Firefox.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above
Actual Results:  
The link does not contain the "!"

Expected Results:  
The link contains the "!"

Comment 1

[Nikolay Shopik]

I assume you are using TB 2.0.0.x? There no such problem in Thunderbird trunk at least TB3a1 works fine.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Confirmed with Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 (20080421) Linux i686 — “!” at the end of a link is not wikified.

Comment 3

[Marc-Etienne VARGENAU]

Yes, I use Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14

Sorry for not providing this information.

Comment 4

[Nikolay Shopik]

fixed on trunk therefore WFM

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM also version 3.0a2pre (2008071003)

Comment 6

[Pascal]

This bug is back at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1379205 and there is discussion there about if/how to fix it again.