443334 - "&pi" is replaced by π symbol despite lack of semicolon for entity

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155047

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Evan Clements]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

I work in digital advertising and have recently added tracking tags to an electronic direct mailout (eDM) when I opened up the tracking code provided by Eyeblaster(tracking company) in Firefox 3 it replaced Pi with the π (the symbol for Pi) which corrupted the url meaning that it would not click through to the correct url destination.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up a FF3 Browser
2. I click on the Eyeblaster attachment provided via email
3. The Eyeblaster information opens in the FF3 browser window
4. The incorrect url is displayed.
Actual Results:  
When I open the tracking code html in a firefox 3 browser from Eyeblaster I get this tracking code

replaced with http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=tf&c=20&mc=click&pli=551180π=0&ord=[timestamp]

Expected Results:  
When I open the tracking code html in Firefox 3 browser I expect to get this code

http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=tf&c=20&mc=click&pli=551180&pi=0&ord=[timestamp]

I would have provided the html attachment if I had the ability to provide attachments.

Comment 1

[Evan Clements]

Attachment: Attached is the HTML that is being corrupted in FF3