514885 - File: directory browser confused by some filenames

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Pat Gunn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5b4/Fnord
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11

If I browse to a directory using the file: interface that has files that look like CGI parameters, instead of displaying any files in the directory, it generates an XML parsing error.

These files often show up from a wget.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. touch foo.php\?id=foo\&bar=baz
2. In firefox, browse to file:///home/yourid/
Actual Results:  
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///home/pgunn
Line Number 1755, Column 140: <td sortable-data="2foo.php?id=foo&amp;bar=baz"><a class="file" href="foo.php%3Fid=foo&amp;bar=baz"><img src="moz-icon://.php%3Fid=foo&bar=baz?size=16" alt="File:" />foo.php?id=foo&amp;bar=baz</a></td>
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Expected Results:  
The code to prepare the directory for display should encode this properly and show it like the file that it is

Comment 1

[Bas Hickendorff]

I can confirm this.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.