Closed Bug 453296 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Urls in emails, that contain a "[" ( array variables ) don't get recognized

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: webe4703, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080716 SUSE/2.0.0.16-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.16 Build Identifier: just parts of URLs in emails get highlighted When I get text emails like this in an email, just a part gets highlighted instead of the full URL... http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=12274&no_cache=1&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender[cmd]=showEvent&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender[date]=2008%2F09%2F02&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender[event]=745 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Write a text email with the following URL to yourself: http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=12274&no_cache=1&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender[cmd]=showEvent&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender[date]=2008%2F09%2F02&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender[event]=745 2. open the url and klick it 3. check url in the browser with the URL, that is in the email Actual Results: http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=12274&no_cache=1&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender Expected Results: http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=12274&no_cache=1&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender[cmd]=showEvent&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender[date]=2008%2F09%2F02&tx_urtveranstaltungskalender[event]=745 fix it! ;-)
Version: unspecified → 2.0
According to RFC 3986 (defining URLs), square brackets aren't legal characters in URLs -- they need to be encoded except in the host portion to show IPV6-based URLs. See section D1 near the end for the clearest explanation. So, Thunderbird seems to be doing the right thing here.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
As a counter-case, a URL with %20 (space) also does the same translation in Firefox, so, yes, I think this is ultimately intended (or possibly a Firefox bug -- I'd expect it to stay as %20 or switch to '+').
ok, thanks for your time :) ( i just think it's not quite userfriendly when want to quickly send a copy&pasted url to someone. but firefox seems to be the guilty one here. ;) )
xref bug 218287.
Summary: Urls in emails, that conatin a "[" ( array variables ) don't get highlighted → Urls in emails, that contain a "[" ( array variables ) don't get recognized
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