tag 348451 confirmed
thanks
Thanks for the patch, but I think it would be preferable to use awk or
sed instead of perl...
Anyways, this is something we ought to fix.
Mike
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:44:18AM +0900, Morita Sho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: firefox
> Version: 1.5.dfsg-4
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Firefox cannot open local file if filename includes
> URI "reserved" characters("?", "#", etc.)
>
> This problem is not occurs when open a file from
> Firefox's menu(File -> Open File...)
>
> For example, running following command:
> $ touch "foo?bar.html"
> $ firefox --verbose "foo?bar.html"
> FIREFOX_DSP=esddsp
> APPLICATION_ID=firefox
> CMDLINE_DISPLAY=
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> OPTIONS=file:///tmp/foo?bar.html
> DEBUG=0
> DEBUGGER=
> Running: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox file:///tmp/foo?bar.html
>
> And then I got a error message:
> File not found
> Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/foo?bar.html.
>
> (--verbose option for firefox command is not necessary to reproduce
> this problem, but clarify why this problem occurs)
>
> The file path to open is translated to file URI by 'firefox' command.
> But file:///tmp/foo?bar.html is not valid as URI because '?' is
> a separator in URI.
>
> According to RFC3986(Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax),
> characters that is not allowed in URI must be Percent-Encoded.
> And characters that allowed in Path of URI is described in
> RFC3986 section 3.3. Path.
>
> So, the characters except following should be percent-encoded:
> alphabet(a to z, A to Z)
> digits(0 to 9)
> - . _ ~ ! $ & ' ( ) * + , = : @ /
>
> "%" and ";" can be used in Path, but is reserved and thus should be
> percent-encoded.
> "%" is a indicator to percent-encoded character.
> ";" is... I don't know what ";" means for.
> But firefox fails to open a file without percent-encoding ";".
> And RFC2396(obsoleted by RFC3986) says:
> Each path segment may include a sequence of parameters,
> indicated by the semicolon ";" character.
>
> I have attached a patch to fix this problem.
>
> Lastly, sorry for my inaccurate English.
>
> regards,
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
> Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> Versions of packages firefox depends on:
> ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific
> t
> hi fontconfig 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration
> library
> ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> an
> ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics
> libra
> hi libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration
> library
> ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared
> lib
> ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-7 GCC support library
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
> ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL
> file
> ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
> ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of
> internatio
> ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
> ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System protocol client
> li
> ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
> ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System miscellaneous
> exte
> hi libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing
> librar
> ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System Input extension
> li
> ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System multi-head
> display
> ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System printing
> extension
> ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System Resize, Rotate
> and
> ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client
> libra
> ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Toolkit Intrinsics
> ii psmisc 22.1-1 Utilities that use the proc
> filesy
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
>
> firefox recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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