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firefox-3.0 package

bad gopher support of abstracts with case sensitive file names

Bug #297837 reported by Mathias Kende
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mozilla Firefox
Won't Fix
Medium
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

The problem can be seen on thse two page :

http://repository.quare.fr:70/C
gopher://repository.quare.fr/1/C

Both are served with pygopherd server. But when firefox is connecting directly to the server with the gopher protocol, then the abstract of the files with upper case characters in their name are not displayed. Yet, these abstract can be seen in the source of the page.

When connected to pygopherd with http protocol, the abstracts are displayed properly.

The problem seems specific to firefox and not to the gopher protocol or server because other clients (e.g. lynx) display the abstracts correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/opt/intel/cce/10.1.018/bin:/opt/root/5.16/bin:/usr/games:~/bin
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

LAST VERSION TESTED:
Firefox 3.0 3.0.10
Firefox 3.5 3.5preb5

WORKAROUND FROM UPSTREAM:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7685

See original description
Tags: apport-bug
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Mathias Kende (mathias-kende) wrote :
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

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 if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest version of Firefox 3.0? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Mathias Kende (mathias-kende) wrote :

Yes, the bug still exists with firefox 3.0.10

Micah Gersten (micahg)
description: updated
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In , Mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing (mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b5pre) Gecko/20090515 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b5pre) Gecko/20090515 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5b5pre

The problem can be seen on these two page :

http://repository.quare.fr:70/C
gopher://repository.quare.fr/1/C

Both are served with pygopherd server. But when firefox is connecting directly to the server with the gopher protocol, then the abstract of the files with upper case characters in their name are not displayed. Yet, these abstract can be seen in the source of the page.

When connected to pygopherd with http protocol, the abstracts are displayed properly.

The problem seems specific to firefox and not to the gopher protocol or server because other clients (e.g. lynx) display the abstracts correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View gopher://repository.quare.fr/1/C
2. View http://repository.quare.fr:70/C
3. Notice abstract missing from gopher protocol load
Actual Results:
Cannot see abstract for Upper case files

Expected Results:
See abstract for upper case files

Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/297837

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In , Mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing (mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing) wrote :

Forgot to mention, this has been tested on:
FF3 3.0.10
FF3.5 3.5~b5~hg20090515r25201

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493477

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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In , Mardeg (mardeg) wrote :

Gopher support is being removed from Firefox in favour of a javascript/extension implementation according to bug 388195 so I doubt fixes to code about to be removed will happen. Either switch to the extension at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7685
or if the ubuntu distro is going to have changes that keep it in, then it's all theirs to maintain.

Micah Gersten (micahg)
description: updated
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Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → New
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Changed in firefox:
status: New → Won't Fix
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Per upstream Gopher support is being removed and this will not be fixed. Please feel free to report any other issues you may find.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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