Bug#600149: iceweasel: incorrectly copies location bar content

[Dmitry Baryshev]

Hi. According to RFC, URL must be escaped before communicating with server.
I don't see any reason why iceweasel copies escaped URL. It's application
duty to escape URL before connecting to a server, so there is no need to
escape something. If some application cannot use unescaped URLs, it's a bug.

2010/10/14 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:00:20AM +0300, Krasu wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 3.5.13-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > When I try to copy some non-ASCII address from location bar, for example
> >
> > http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Славянская_мифология<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F>
> >
> > iceweasel will copy escaped line, e.g.
> >
> >
> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F
> >
> > I expect (and I think many other users, I saw a flame war about that)
> that
> > iceweasel will copy the address itself without escaping, like all other
> > browsers do.
>
> I think iceweasel is right doing this, because it can't know for sure
> the target application will be able to handle the unescaped url (the url
> probably needs to be escaped when talking to the server)
>
> Mike
>



-- 
Regards, Krasu
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