GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 256142
URL parser doesn't properly parse trailing . in hostnames
Last modified: 2006-02-22 10:32:36 UTC
Description of Problem: the URL parser doesn't properly parse trailing . in hostname part of URL Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. send or receive a plaintext email with a url formatted as such: http://scriptkitchen.com./qmail/ Actual Results: the above link will only go to http://scriptkitchen.com Expected Results: it should parse out the full URL http://scriptkitchen.com./qmail/ How often does this happen? every time, from what I've seen. Additional Information: from http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html section 3.2.2: hostname = *( domainlabel "." ) toplabel [ "." ] and may be followed by a single "." Thanks dobey for making me go find the RFC that describes this :) It's probably not a very common issue in the wild, however it does appear to be functioning improperly, and should probably evetually be fixed. It probably affects other versions, however the only version I have on hand is 1.4.5 running on gentoo linux, so I only posted what I could confirm.
this is gtkhtml, not evolution
*** Bug 248950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 59058 [details] [review] patch