I'm not sure if it's related to the % being in the prehost or not (I don't think it is). But, this url will cause url->GetPath() to spit back "there.com/aPath/a.html", instead of the expected "/aPath/a.html".

Do different rules apply for escaping in the hostname section? Or is %h supposed to just be treated as an "h"? The url looks malformed, but we should cope with it nonetheless.

uname%hostname.com is commonly used as a "username" on systems that want to use the user's email address as the username. using the straight up uname@hostname.com would break parsing rules for scheme://prehost@foo.com, thus if you're logging in somewhere that requires your email address as a pwd (basically any web based login form, or the ftp uname/pwd dialog) the service you're using requests that you replace the @ with a %, and their system interprets it the same way. So, to make a long story short, the '%' should not be escaped in the prehost.

I have a fix for this, waiting for review ...

fix checked in ...

works now. Thanks andreas!

Bulk move of all Necko (to be deleted component) bugs to new Networking component.