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HREF=UTF-8 String <a href="http://%E9%A3%9F....." doesn't work

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mike_ecotw101
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The problem that I have is IDN (International Domain Name) UTF-8 string set in the Web Page's < a href="

I have create the test case reside in the http://ecotw101.com/test_href_idn.html There are 2 lines in the page content 1st line: htef using the Chinese character input string and just like the type into the browser URL , both will works (connet to HTTP server) 2nd line: href using the UTF-8 3bytes encoding for each character and after it send to Apache Server, it get the following err message " Server not found

Firefox can't find the server at %e9%a3%9f%e7%89%a9%e5%85%8d%e8%b2%bb.%e6%85%88%e5%96%84%e7%b6%b2.net. "

The test case works fine with the Chrome browser.

Since the href content was generated from HTML editor or QR redirect program, it is UTF-8 format. Firefox use it for connect to Web Server and got error.

Don't know how Chrome handle the case. I guess that Chrome might do a convert from UTF-8 to PunyCode of IDN.

IE has the same problem. This problem will happen on the mobile smart phone after scan a QR code which use an IDN for redirecting the Web site.

Thanks !

- Mike

code edited to get rid of the whole paragraph worth of hyperlink - ed

The problem that I have is IDN (International Domain Name) UTF-8 string set in the Web Page's &lt; a href=" I have create the test case reside in the http://ecotw101.com/test_href_idn.html There are 2 lines in the page content 1st line: htef using the Chinese character input string and just like the type into the browser URL , both will works (connet to HTTP server) 2nd line: href using the UTF-8 3bytes encoding for each character and after it send to Apache Server, it get the following err message " Server not found Firefox can't find the server at %e9%a3%9f%e7%89%a9%e5%85%8d%e8%b2%bb.%e6%85%88%e5%96%84%e7%b6%b2.net. " The test case works fine with the Chrome browser. Since the href content was generated from HTML editor or QR redirect program, it is UTF-8 format. Firefox use it for connect to Web Server and got error. Don't know how Chrome handle the case. I guess that Chrome might do a convert from UTF-8 to PunyCode of IDN. IE has the same problem. This problem will happen on the mobile smart phone after scan a QR code which use an IDN for redirecting the Web site. Thanks ! - Mike ---------------------------- ''code edited to get rid of the whole paragraph worth of hyperlink - ed''

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guigs
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network.standard-url.encode-utf8 = true (default: false) network.standard-url.escape-utf8 = false currently is true

If you change that second setting does it help? It did not for me but I saw back in version 3 this was a feature that was proposed fixed. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552273 for reference. It I may ask is this the only site that does this?

cor-el
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You can't have escaped cod in the first TLD part of the link. You can only have puny code in that part.

Note that the .net domain isn't whitelisted via a network.IDN.whitelist.net pref.

mike_ecotw101
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Thanks for replying.

Have tried to set network.standard-url.escape-utf8 = false and restart the Firefox and it still can't solve the problem.

Chrome browser works fine.

I guess Firefox might need to convert the href=" %xx%xx ..." into the href="//xn--94qz02fu7 ...: punycode and then use the punycode to get name resolve.

- Mike

guigs
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Just to follow up: Bug 309671 was the actual bug, as one of the bugzilla contributors/engineers informed me. They are looking for help if you would like to read up on the discussion for this issue. Thank you for your time.