Bug#573543: iceweasel corrupts valid urls into invalid ones

[Mike Hommey]

found 573543 6.0~b4-1
fixed 573543 7.0~b1-1

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 12:31:27PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:12:37AM +0200, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> > > implementing urls shouldn't be that hard, and it's an important
> > > interoperability standard. so I think this behaviour is a definite bug.
> > 
> > It displays |, but if you copy/paste the url, it gives %7c. Or at least
> > it does so in more recent versions.
> 
> I have just tried with iceweasel 5.0-6, pasting the url into the browser
> windows results in:
> 
> http://www.geektools.com/rfc/rfc1738.txt#en|us
> 
> selecting this text again with double-click and pasting it into a urxvt
> terminal results in:
> 
> http://www.geektools.com/rfc/rfc1738.txt#en|us
> 
> so this is definitely not fixed, or has been reintroduced in iceweasel 5.0
> 
> (please don't close bugs without testing them first!)

I did test... with iceweasel 7... in which it *is* fixed. It turns out
it's not in iceweasel 5 and 6. 7.0 beta 1 should be available in
experimental shortly after August 16. You can get 7.0~a2 from the aurora
channel on http://mozilla.debian.net/

Mike