Description of problem: I often receive URLs via email, e.g. when registering with websites, and these URLs sometimes contain & characters. Upon selecting the URL, copying, then pasting into firefox, the "&" characters in the URL are expanded to "&" characters, and the remote web site typically fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-data-server-1.12.3-6.el5 evolution-webcal-2.7.1-6 evolution-2.12.3-8.el5 gtkhtml3-3.16.3-1.el5 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Send self an email containing a URL with a "&" character, e.g. http://example.com?val1=foo&val2=bar 2. Browse to email 3. Right-click on URL; select "Copy Link Location" 4. Paste into gedit 5. Right-click on URL; select "Open Link in Browser" Actual results: at 4: URL is pasted thus, with the "&" character corrupted to "&": at 5: firefox opens, but to link containing "&": Broken URL is: "http://example.com/?val1=foo&val2=bar" For "real" URLs, this typically breaks the remote server; I've seen redirects and internal server errors from this. Expected results: URLs should be preserved at both stages 4 and 5, it should simply be the URL we started with: http://example.com?val1=foo&val2=bar
Bug appears to affects the Message Preview pane and regular message windows. However, copying from "Message Source" windows appears to give correct URLs when pasted, so this can be used as a workaround.
We finally got this fixed recently upstream. Bugs were in both Camel and GtkHtml, IIRC. Should be able to backport it.
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