firefox puts trademark HTML entity into job name when printing; causes Cups IPP printers to fail

Bug #51756 reported by Bradley M. Kuhn
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cupsys (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Mozilla Bugs

Bug Description

I am running Dapper with:

cupsys 1.2.0-0ubuntu5
firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-0ubuntu6
mozilla-firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-0ubuntu6

If you choose to print to a cups IPP printer from firefox, and the page you are printing has a ® HTML entity in the page TITLE, it uses that page title as the name of the job. This causes the job to crash the IPP backend.

One might argue that this is cupsys's fault for not handling the trademark symbol gracefully. I am therefore filing this as a bug against the cupsys package as well.

description: updated
Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

right, this is not a firefox issue. In order to close this bug we would like to properly document it by adding the cups bug number. Please let us know which bug id the cups bug got.

Thanks!

Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → mozillateam
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
Revision history for this message
Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn-ebb) wrote :

The cups bug in launchpad is Bug #51755

David Farning (dfarning)
Changed in firefox:
assignee: mozillateam → mozilla-bugs
Changed in firefox:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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