[tbb-bugs] #20304 [Applications/Tor Browser]: SOCKS socket does not support spaces and other special characters

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#20304: SOCKS socket does not support spaces and other special characters
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     Reporter:  mcs                       |      Owner:  mcs
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:
Actual Points:                            |  Parent ID:  #14270
       Points:                            |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:                            |
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 While working on #20111, Kathy and I found a bug in Firefox's SOCKS socket
 support: special characters, including spaces, are not decoded before the
 configured path is placed inside a Unix domain sockaddr. This causes the
 SOCKS connection to not work at all when a Unix domain socket is used with
 a path that contains spaces (or other URL-special characters).

 We are working on a patch which we will also want to uplift to Firefox. I
 will file a Firefox bug later.

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