353939 - entering about:invalid_url in the location bar doesn't do anything

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 87513

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Lev Olkhovich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

If an invalid about: url is entered in the location bar, nothing happens at all (except for that url getting displayed in the location bar).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enter an invalid about: url (like about:sdfsdfsd) in the location bar

Actual Results:  
previously existing page stays on the screen

Expected Results:  
either and error page or an error message should be displayed

can be a potential security hole with about: URL handling

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

With a trunk build I get a alert saying: "This URL is not valid and cannot be loaded".

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87513 ***

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified duplicate