firefox: Problem in storing of IPv6 URLs

[Martin Pels]

Binary package hint: firefox

Hi,

IPv6 URLs in the form http://[address]/ are not handled correctly by firefox when storing them.

For example, when a HTML page containing a link to "http://[2001:838:1::1]/" is saved to disk, this is stored by firefox as "http://%5B2001:838:1::1%5D/". Now when the saved HTML page is opened, firefox shows this as a link to "http://[b2001:838/".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy'), (
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii firefox-3. 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 safe and easy web browser from Moz

firefox recommends no packages.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for your bugreport. Since this seems to be an issue with
version 3 of the firefox browser, I'm reassigning the package.

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status invalid

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status new

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Pels (martin-rodecker)]

Yes. The issue is still there. Firefox 3.0.5 on Hardy.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thanks for the update. This is an upstream-issue and should be reported to the developers. Please go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org and open a new report. Please also link the report to this one. Thanks.

[Christian Biesinger (cbiesinger)]

FYI, the upstream bug report for this is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498433, now fixed on trunk.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Although technically not fixed in Firefox 3.0, it is fixed in all currently supported versions of Firefox.