675555 - location.search is an empty string for about: URLs

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jez Ng [:int3]]

1. Go to about:home?test=1 or about:config?test=1
2. Open the Web Console and type 'window.location.search'

Actual Results:
window.location.search is the empty string.

Expected Results:
window.location.search == "?test=1"

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Non-hierarchical URIs in necko don't have a query portion.  In the cases above, the path is "home?test=1" and "config?test=1" respectively.

In particular, these URIs match the 

  scheme ":" opaque_part

production from RFC 2396 section 3, more or less.

RFC 3986 changes around the definitions so this option no longer seems to exist, but we don't implement that RFC anyway (in part because parts of it are not web-compatible).

There's currently work on an updated URI RFC; once the dust settles on that we should see what things look like.

But the upshot is that in your examples there is in fact no .search on that URI at the moment.  The '?' character is just not special in non-hierarchical URIs.

Comment 2

[Jez Ng [:int3]]

Ah I see; thanks for the explanation!