Bug 42377

Summary:	EDITING: Insert external data will not start with uncoded special characters in URL
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Rainer Bielefeld Retired <LibreOffice>
Component:	Calc	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	LibreOffice, michael.stahl, xiscofauli
Priority:	low
Version:	3.4.4 RC1
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Windows (All)
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Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	112071

Description Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-10-29 10:39:36 UTC

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open new spreadsheet
2. Menu 'Insert -> Link to External Data'
3. Insert this URL: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?chfieldto=2011-10-29&chfield=[Bug%20creation]&query_format=advanced&chfieldfrom=2011-10-27>
4. Press <Enter> with caret in URL input pane
   Expected: LibO should contact URL and search for Table data
   Actual: nothing, no "Busy" mouse pointer and Wireshark does not show any
           activity to "freedesktop.org"
5. Check URL. you will find 2 square brackets. replace "[" by "%5B" and "]" by
   "%5D"
6. Press <Enter> with caret in URL input pane
   Expected: LibO should contact URL and search for Table data
   Actual: "Busy" mouse pointer and Wireshark shows activity connected to 
           "freedesktop.org", after few moments available tables and ranges 
            dialog will be shown

Coding those characters is not necessary for data interchange (at least not with Seamonkey Browser), so LibO should not require it.

Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-01-06 23:26:09 UTC

[Reproducible] with Parallel Dev-Installation of  "LibreOffice 3.5.0 Beta2- WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [Build-ID : 8589e48-760cc4d-f39cf3d-1b2857e-60db978] and alll other versions I tested, so NEW

@Kohei:
Please feel free to reassign (or reset Assignee to default) if it’s not your area or if provided information is not sufficient. Please set Status to ASSIGNED if you accept this Bug.

Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2021-12-23 16:04:08 UTC

This is fixed in

Version: 7.3.0.0.beta1+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 86f539a23b08d0cc9e5e9566ac31380e373be13f
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.10; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

This started to work after Michael Stahl enabled --with-webdav=curl by default.
< https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=bdef11f5337ecc87556a92693f6b7b5e200eb29e >

Closing as VERIFIED FIXED