493477 - gopher abstracts not displayed when file name is Upper case

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Micah Gersten]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b5pre) Gecko/20090515 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b5pre) Gecko/20090515 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5b5pre

The problem can be seen on these two page :

http://repository.quare.fr:70/C
gopher://repository.quare.fr/1/C

Both are served with pygopherd server. But when firefox is connecting directly to the server with the gopher protocol, then the abstract of the files with upper case characters in their name are not displayed. Yet, these abstract can be seen in the source of the page.

When connected to pygopherd with http protocol, the abstracts are displayed properly.

The problem seems specific to firefox and not to the gopher protocol or server because other clients (e.g. lynx) display the abstracts correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View gopher://repository.quare.fr/1/C
2. View http://repository.quare.fr:70/C
3. Notice abstract missing from gopher protocol load
Actual Results:  
Cannot see abstract for Upper case files

Expected Results:  
See abstract for upper case files

Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/297837

Comment 1

[Micah Gersten]

Forgot to mention, this has been tested on:
FF3 3.0.10
FF3.5 3.5~b5~hg20090515r25201

Comment 2

[Mardeg]

Gopher support is being removed from Firefox in favour of a javascript/extension implementation according to bug 388195 so I doubt fixes to code about to be removed will happen. Either switch to the extension at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7685
or if the ubuntu distro is going to have changes that keep it in, then it's all theirs to maintain.