[gentoo-dev] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?

[Alexander Skwar]

Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@g.o>:

> Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> loaded. Instead of http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923,00.html
>> it would load http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923. Reason is, that
>> firefox executes mozilla-launcher which will eventually run
>> "mozilla-xremote-client openURL($u)". The problem with that is,
>> that openURL accepts two parameters and they are seperated with
>> a ,. So it sees two parameters: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,447923 and
>
> That would be very hackish if that's what the intention there really
> is.

Hm? openURL always accepted two parameters, see <http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html>.

>> There's now a patch added to this bug, but I actually object
>> this patch. This patch replaces , in the parameters with
>> %2c (%2c = ,). At a first glance, this patch seemed somewhat
>> fine.
>
> URLs with ')' in them are also problems for mozilla-launcher.

) is not a valid character in a URL, though - or is it?

Alexander Skwar
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