Nabble permalink offered in WebKit is not wholly reliable, and differs from resulting URL in Firefox

Posted by Graham Perrin on Jan 11, 2009; 5:00pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Nabble-permalink-offered-in-WebKit-is-not-wholly-reliable-and-differs-from-resulting-URL-in-Firefox-tp2141910.html

At <http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/GrahamPerrin20090111> | Benefits of using Nabble

I offered an example of a permalink.

The example given was <http://n2.nabble.com/Understanding-and-housekeeping-weeding-%281%29-binary_backup.tgz-%282%29-backup.chex-%283%29-date-time-stamped-.chex-files-%284%29-__repository__.*-directories-tp2109816p2139702.html>, copied from the permalink dialogue of a message posted on 10th January.

In Firefox 3.0.5 on Mac OS X 10.5.6, the permalink seems to work as expected.

In Safari and other WebKit-based browsers, including WebKit-SVN-r39790 (nightly), the results of the permalink are unpredictable, at least in Classic view.

If I copy the URL from the address bar of Firefox, the result is distinctly different (this type of thing rings a bell, sorry if I'm duplicating an earlier report):

<http://n2.nabble.com/Understanding-and-housekeeping-weeding-(1)-binary_backup.tgz-(2)-backup.chex-(3)-date-time-stamped-.chex-files-(4)-__repository__.*-directories-td2109816.html#a2139702>.

If this is a bug in WebKit, might there be an interim workaround in Nabble?

TIA
Graham