567493 - Google OpenSearch plugin uses deprecated parameters

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[candylandish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100501 Iceweasel/3.5.9 (like Firefox/3.5.9)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100501 Iceweasel/3.5.9 (like Firefox/3.5.9)

In the included OpenSearch plugin for Google, the following parameters are added to search requests:
  <Param name="ie" value="utf-8"/>
  <Param name="oe" value="utf-8"/>

However these parameters are just ignored by Google. See:
http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/reference.html#2_1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download latest nightly build
2. Open searchplugins/google.xml
3. There it is

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> However these parameters are just ignored by Google. See:
> http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/reference.html#2_1

That looks like documentation for the Google SOAP API, which is itself deprecated. Do you have any indication that this applies to their normal search results page?

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

No response from the reporter about whether or not the "ie" and "oe" params are supported. I can't find any documentation about this, so I'm going to assume its a false report.