552034 - Most file links in FTP directory listing contain an extra space, rendering the links dysfunctional

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 543805

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Patrik Hysky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

Go to
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/smb/pdfs/

Firefox incorrectly parses the FTP directory listing and adds %20 to most links:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/smb/pdfs/%20Diverse_Data.pdf

should be
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/smb/pdfs/Diverse_Data.pdf

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/smb/pdfs/
2. Roll over the links...most have an extra space incorrectly inserted
3.
Actual Results:  
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/smb/pdfs/%20Diverse_Data.pdf

Expected Results:  
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/smb/pdfs/Diverse_Data.pdf

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Regression range: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=febec8184b02&tochange=05d7e81676bd

Looks like a regression from bug 484684.  Michal, is this ftp server putting in unexpected spaces even though the filename doesn't contain any?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

And confirming, even.

Comment 4

[Michal Novotny [:michal]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Looks like a regression from bug 484684.  Michal, is this ftp server putting in
> unexpected spaces even though the filename doesn't contain any?

Yes, exactly. I have seen this only on IBM's servers so far.