Re: iceweasal vs long urls. Long url wins, iceweasal doesn't
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 11:52:13 Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2015-03-10 13:36 +0100, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Using a distro based on wheezy, configured with a real time kernel,
> > but Over on another list, I've a guy using dropbox to post some .png
> > images of a circuit board he has designed.
> >
> > Unfortunately I cannot see those images because dropbox is using %20
> > for spaces in the returned URL. But between my clicking on the link
> > in kmail 1.13.7, and iceweasal, the %20's are being converted to
> > spaces by the time I see iceweasal's address bar contents, so of
> > course I am looking at dropboxes fancy 404's page since spaces
> > aren't allowed in a URL.
> >
> > This translation should not be taking place IMO.
>
> It's normally only used for display, iceweasel should still send the
> %20 to the server.
>
> > Is this something I can fix with an iceweasal about:config option?
>
> Yes, set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false.
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
Just did that too, thanks, Sven.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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