Mozilla Thunderbird

Links in email only partial recognized

Bug #291177 reported by beeti
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mozilla Thunderbird
New
Unknown
thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

Paket mozilla-thunderbird
:2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1

A link embedded in an email is usually clickable and "blue"

I received a link which ended with a "-" sign. Clicking on that link omits the -.
For example

http://public.bscw.de/pub/bscw.cgi/0/95196466?auth=xyzabc- the final - is not part of the link

Linux peter-desktop 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:43:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

See original description
Tags: email link
beeti (p-buschhorn)
description: updated
beeti (p-buschhorn)
description: updated
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In , Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

Forwarded ubuntu bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291177):

Example:
 http://public.bscw.de/pub/bscw.cgi/0/95196466?auth=xyzabc-

Result: the final - is not part of the link

Expected Result: the final - should be part of the link

Changed in mozilla-thunderbird:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

I filed your bug upstream as: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462745

consider to subscribe there too and follow up on questions that developers might have.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in thunderbird:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
In , Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

Created attachment 355356
allow - at end of link

a patch would probably be like this ... not sure how many rely on the current behaviour though.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in thunderbird:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Karl Hegbloom (karl.hegbloom) wrote :

I think that since the '-' character is a legal character for a URL, the matching code is working properly. The person who typed the link into the message should have put a space after the link and before the -. The workaround is to highlight the link and paste it into an empty location box in the browser.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in thunderbird:
status: Confirmed → New
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In , Bug-husbandry-bot (bug-husbandry-bot) wrote :

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258

Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
affects: mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu) → thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in thunderbird:
importance: Medium → Unknown
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