596838 - improperly escaped illegal URIs/IRIs are displayed

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[al_9x]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10

1. Some reserved chars unescaped (should all be escaped): http://www.google.com/search?q=%21%2A%27%28%29%3B%3A%40%26%3D%2B%24%2C%2F%3F%23%5B%5D

2. Illegal ASCII printable chars are unescaped (should all be escaped): http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%20%3C%3E%5C%5E%60%7B%7C%7D

3. Some illegal ASCII non-printable control chars are unescaped and shown as hex code glyphs (should all be escaped): https://developer.mozilla.org/Special:Search?search=%00%01%02%03%04%05%06%07%08%09%0A%0B%0C%0D%0E%0F%10%11%12%13%14%15%16%17%18%19%1A%1B%1C%1D%1E%1F%7F



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[marginal]

This bugreport is incorrect concerning escaping of the apostrophe character (', %27). This should be unescaped in some situations, although in fact currently Firefox escapes it in all situations, due to the same erroneous assumption you have made. Please see the following bugs for further discussion of this,

* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407172
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434211

NULL (%00) has been mentioned in another bugreport, see

* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494877

(I have not assessed the remainder of this report.)

Comment 2

[al_9x]

this is not just for 3.6

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.