312130 - The URL "http://http" gets redirected to www.microsoft.com!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ramon Casha]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051001 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051001 Firefox/1.0.7

A website I visited had an incorrect URL "http://http://www.jetbrains.com" - and
Firefox redirected to www.microsoft.com instead. I checked same URL with
Konqueror and it just gave an error message.

Apparently Microsoft registered their site with the "http" keyword in google.
Sneaky buggers!

Personally I think Firefox should not do keyword-searching if the URL contains
the "http://" (or similar) prefix - keywords should only be used when no
protocol part is included in the URL.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

We automatically do a keyword search for non-URLs. You can configure the URL it
searches with keyword.URL and whether the pref. is enabled with keyword.enabled
all in about:config. 

Comment 2

[Ramon Casha]

The problem is, the keyword searching is invoked not only on non-URLs, but *on
URLs too*. Basically, if the browser cannot immediately resolve a URL it
automatically interprets it as a keyword, even if it's a complete URL with
http://, server, path, query string etc. - in fact, keyword-searching will even
be invoked on links that the user clicks on in a page! 

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231720 ***

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The problem is, the keyword searching is invoked not only on non-URLs, but *on
> URLs too*. Basically, if the browser cannot immediately resolve a URL it
> automatically interprets it as a keyword, even if it's a complete URL with
> http://, server, path, query string etc. - in fact, keyword-searching will even
> be invoked on links that the user clicks on in a page! 

that's bug 245597