719158 - URL as IPv6-address is no correct link in the mail-body/text, only http:///

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 223681

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[shrek-m]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Build ID: 20111220165912

Steps to reproduce:

Thunderbird 9.0.1 DE, Mac OSX 10.7.2

write and send an email with an url as ipv6-address in the body

--------
thunderbird  ipv6 web-address-test ...

1)  http://[2001:db8:1::2]
2)  http://2001:db8:1::2
----/----


Actual results:

1) is a correct  ipv6-url, but is shortened to http:///
<a href="http:///">http://</a>[2001:db8:1::2]

2) is a wrong ipv6-url and is correctly only text
http://2001:db8:1::2


Expected results:

1) is a correct url an should be a correct link
<a href="http://[2001:db8:1::2]">http://[2001:db8:1::2]</a>

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to shrek-m from comment #0)
See bug 223681.

Comment 2

[shrek-m]

Thanks,

bug 223681  (status new) from 2003-10-25
bug 409248  (duplicate)  from 2007-12-20

unresolved since 2003 and 2012-06-06 is the world ipv6 launchday :(
http://www.worldipv6launch.org/