webbrowser.Netscape.open bug fix

[pernici]

BPO	1144816
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @phdru
Files	diff_webbrowser: patch relative to Revision 1.37

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title = 'webbrowser.Netscape.open bug fix'
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[pernici]

My system:
Python 2.4.1a0 (#2, Feb 9 2005, 12:50:04)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8)] on linux2

In webbrowser.Netscape.open the command passed to the
browser should not have
blank spaces (see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html);
due to the space in "openURL(%s, new-window)"
mozilla-firefox opens my home page instead of the
requested page.

[phdru]

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This is a dup of the bug http://python.org/sf/1077979

[rodsenra]

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1144816 and 1077979 are the the same patch, as documented
in a comment for 1144816 by Oleg Broytmann.

The wrong behaviour was reported to Mozilla (unspecified
version),
Netscape 7.2 and Mozilla-firefox (unspecified version).

I could not reproduce the problem neither with Mozilla
1.7.2 nor
with Firefox 1.0.1. Nevertheless, applying the patch does
not break
current functionality and might fix bugs in older browsers.

I recommend applying 1077979, and closing 1144816.

[birkenfeld]

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Closing as duplicate, as requested.