235786 - keyword feature shouldn't trigger if "http://" was included

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 263213

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Singer Wang]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

I like the fact that if type a few words in teh address bar Firebat will google
for the words

howerver, I think that if you put in http://word or http://word:8080

it shouldn't google it cause you explicity use http://

this is espically annoying as I have the word jennings in my hosts file for a
certain IP address

I connect to tomcat on that machine with http://jennings:8080

but if the tomcat is down, then it googles the word jennings and takes me to a
page www.waylon.com



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://anyword
Actual Results:  
takes me to this page

http://www.superlinksoftware.com/cgi-bin/jugwiki.pl?AnyWord



Expected Results:  
since I explicity state http://anyword

it should tell me no such domain exists or whatever.. espically if I have
anyword mapped to a ip in my hosts file and go http://anyword:8080 and no server
is listening on 8080 (cuase it crashed)

Comment 1

[Singer Wang]

can we add any https:// as well? in general 

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184433 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

REOPEN: incorrect dupe.

Comment 4

[Michael Trimm]

I think that when Firefox cannot find the page, it does the google search...I
may be wrong though.

Comment 5

[Michael Trimm]

Adding myself to the CC for this bug

Comment 6

[Justin Brown]

It's especially bad when the entry into the location bar is:

http://http//

The result is the Microsoft homepage.

This occurs primarily due to opening a badly formatted link, ie:

http://http//www.uppsala.dk/serieanalys

So the website is really the one at fault here, but the results are not good for
Firefox.

Comment 7

[Michael Trimm]

Sounds like a bug to me...Confirming!

Comment 8

[Tom Graham]

This bug is enjoying press coverage (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20046)
and might further enjoy a swift resolution...

Comment 9

[Gordon Schumacher]

This feature should *also* have a pref. to turn it on and off!  Mozilla has (or
had?) one... why not Firefox?

Perhaps that should be a different bug, but... ick.

Comment 10

[benc]

You mean pref UI? The backend pref (keyword.enable?) should work in firefox.

Comment 11

[Gordon Schumacher]

(In reply to comment #10)
> You mean pref UI? The backend pref (keyword.enable?) should work in firefox.

The backend pref works but - why not something in the Preferences window?  I
would think that this would be something that people would want to change, and
the majority of Firefox/Mozilla users don't know about the backend system (and
wouldn't want to screw with it if they did).

It's a geek vs. Joe User question.

Comment 12

[ludovic claude]

Try to type http://http://mozilla.org in the adress bar, and you are redirected
to microsoft.com!!
I don't think that you guys should let this bug pass the 1.1 release of Firefox.

Comment 13

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

blocking+/- flags should be set by drivers only. you may nominate for blocking+ with blocking? (after reviewing of the blockers lists to gauge relative importance, naturally)

Comment 14

[Tigerwolf]

Entering just 'http' in the navigation bar, or http://http<anything> takes you
to Micro$soft's home page.   There can't be a worse, or more disgusting, bug!

It also appears that MS bribed Google to direct a search on 'http' to their home
page as well, presumably that's what get's triggered by the malformed URL bug.

This *really* needs fixing! 

Comment 15

[Lloyd Dewolf]

This appears to be a dup of bug # 85999.

Comment 16

[benc]

*** Bug 85999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 313408 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263213 ***

Comment 19

[benc]

V/dupe.