30707 - Relative links on www.emacs.org are not be resolved correctly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22251

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

If you go to the url above, and try to click on Customize, which is a relative
link to Customize.shtml, you will be forwarded to http://customize.shtml.

I am using a build from yesterday night.  When I tried to reproduce this with a
smaller test case, I could not.  Needs more investigation.

Comment 1

[Jerry Baker]

The HTML in that page is broken. When I view source it, here's what I see for 
that link:

<A href="http:customize.shtml">

For some reason NC 4.71 resolves that link correctly. Very bizarre.

Why are Netscape employee's not able to set a bug as new? I feel weird 
confirming a Netscape employee's bug report ;-)

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

this is a networking bug, resolving http:url without domain name and // wrong
(as jerry baker saw)

Comment 3

[Andreas Otte]

This is a dup of bug 22251, which is marked wontfix! I fact the above relative
URLs are a loophole in old RFCs which are deprecated but still in use.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22251 ***

Comment 4

[Tom Everingham]

verified DUP