Kernel 2.2.6, Mozilla M5, KDE 1.1, Red Hat 5.2 Yahoo! News stories Links on the main Yahoo! page will not load when clicked in Mozilla M5.

Well it looks like the problem is with the url being given which is something like '/homer/?http://...'. Looking further to see if I'm munging the URL or if this is a netlib problem.

The problem seems to be in NS_MakeAbsoluteURL. Reassigning to netlib.

With the latest Linux Build (1999063008), I can't reproduce the problem described. Clicking on the New stories link goes to correct page.

Pushed past necko landing...

Pl. verify with Necko.

Windows NT 4 build 7/25/08 My Netscape seems to have the same problem. Clicking on any of the links in the Netcenter Apps box yields "Error Loading URL http://" I looked at the source from the page and the markup looks like this: <A HREF="z.t?cp=myna/http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail/index.html">

Known problem with parsing. Marking for M10.

Kipp wants to help. Kipp: from what I see we are parsing for :// and since this is a relative link that portion throws off our logic. So we first need to check for ? to detect any random characters after it as query. Let me know if you need more help.

Can you explain what all the '?' cases are for nsStdURL::Parse? I don't recall ? being allowed in so many places...thanks

Once more, with gagan on the cc list: Can you explain what all the '?' cases are for nsStdURL::Parse? I don't recall ? being allowed in so many places...thanks

Ok, I've done *some* work to make the url parsing work better. I updated urltest to test the cases implied by this bug and they seem to work (note: there are a few test cases in urltest that don't pass -- try "urltest -abs foo" to see them). Basically I made it so that "abc;param?query#ref" will always parse with "#" taking precedence over "?" which takes precedence over ";". Therefore, if there are funny characters in refs or queries, they will retain them. Which makes this sort of thing: "?http://one-two-three;hello" do the "right" thing. It's not clear if the ref handling is exactly right, however.

*** Bug 14697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

can this be marked fixed

links to news stories off www.yahoo.com work for me on 11/5 linux and win32 builds. marking fixed.

With the Nov 15th Linux build, this problem is fixed.