911489 - Special Characters in Links are Mangled

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Michael Albert]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130814063812

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create a URL that contains a "!" character (Mega (at https://mega.co.nz/) file link URLs use them),
2) Create a new email message in Thunderbird, 
3) Create a link in the message using the URL, 
4) Save the message in the Drafts folder for later editing, 
5) Re-edit the message and examine the link. 


Actual results:

All occurrences in the link of "!" are changed to "%21".  If the message is sent, the recipient will not be able to follow the link successfully because it is mangled.  This may occur with other odd characters as well.  


Expected results:

The link should not have been changed.  Any valid URL, even those that contain odd characters, should be preserved and not altered by Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[scrapgalore]

I had exactly the same problem as described with Thunderbird 17.0.8