720378 - error if receiving message with svn+ssh URL in message body

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 541130

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[sienkiew]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111104 Red Hat/3.6-3.el5_7 Firefox/3.6.24
Build ID: 20111104080228

Steps to reproduce:

I RECEIVED an email message that contains this line of text:

svn+ssh://example.com/arf/arf 

To confirm this bug, I downloaded and installed the latest thunderbird, which says it is 9.0.1.  (Check for updates says "Thunderbird is up to date".)  My computer is Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux.



Actual results:

When I read the message, I get a popup that says "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for Gecko.  Some of your configuration settings may not work properly."

I clicked on details, and it says:

Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/svn+ssh/command": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/svn+ssh/command": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names


In fact, I reduced this to an example.  I actually am on a mailing list where there was discussion about an svn+ssh URL, and there were ~15 messages that each caused this error when I clicked on them.

Initially, I was concerned that this was a security exploit, but on closer examination, I see that there is not really a problem with my configuration -- just a misleading error message.



Expected results:

Message content sent by somebody else should never cause a configuration error.  svn+ssh://hostname/directoryname is a perfectly valid string to pass in an email message; if thunderbird does not recognize svn+ssh, it should quietly ignore it instead of creating a popup.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to sienkiew from comment #0)
See bug 541130.