531524 - firefox generates malformed XML for directory listing, only shows error message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 525222

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Tobias Diedrich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

Instead of a directory listing table for my home directory I get the following error message:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///home/ranma/
Line Number 1270, Column 161: <td sortable-data="2coupon.php?uid=1&amp;sendflg=accept"><a class="file" href="coupon.php%3Fuid=1&amp;sendflg=accept"><img src="moz-icon://.php%3Fuid=1&sendflg=accept?size=16" alt="File:" />coupon.php?uid=1&amp;sendflg=accept</a></td>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^

If I remove the offending file the directory is listed as expected.
I tried minimizing the filename and found that the following still causes the XML error for me: 'a.b&c'
'a.b' (obviously, this should be a well tested pattern) and 'b&c' alone as file names work fine though.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create file in $HOME using 'touch a.b\&c'
2.Try to list file:///$HOME
3.
Actual Results:  
error message saying firefox internally generated XML is malformed

Expected Results:  
Directory listing of $HOME

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed in Firefox 4 and later.