689709 - searching for local hosts in address bar with hidden http:// prefix

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Jeff]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0
Build ID: 20110922153450

Steps to reproduce:

Visit a site on your local network, such as http://teamspace/xyz. Type www.google.com into the location bar and hit enter. Click on the location bar and start typing "teamspace". When the teamspace/xyz is found, click it or press the down arrow to select it and hit enter.


Actual results:

Took me to a google search for teamspace/xyz


Expected results:

Should have taken me to http://teamspace/xyz

Comment 1

[Jeff]

For anyone else experiencing this problem, you can disable hiding the http:// prefix by going to "about:config" and setting "browser.urlbar.trimURL" to false.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Hm, when I put foo/bar in the location bar and hit enter, the status panel says "Looking up foo...". Only when that fails I get the google search.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

I just started up a local web server, entered localhost/test, correctly got a response from the local server, closed the tab, entered "loc" and selected localhost/test from the autocomplete popup and got the page from the server again, no google search.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

I wonder if this may just be a local proxy issue, you may try setting up a PAC (proxy auto config) file to resolve that intranet address to the proper ip.

Comment 7

[Diwakar Sharma]

unable to reproduce this bug :

1) Opened local website on a website on a local server http://localhost/
2) Opened www.google.com in location bar 
3) After that type http://local selected the local website again and pressed enter 

Observed result:
1) It is not taking me to google search.

OS Version : Windows 7 32 bit
Browser version : Aurora 15.0a2 (2012-07-11)

Comment 8

[Giovanny Gongora [:gioyik]]

Can't reproduce this report:

OS Version : Linux x86-64
Browser version : Aurora 15.0a2 and Firefox 14.0b12 build1

Any unexpected result.

Comment 9

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

wfm.

Comment 10

[Greg Edwards]

I was about to file a bug for this and can replicate reliably if the path contains spaces.

Paste the following URL into the address bar:
http://localhost/path%20containing%20spaces/to/some/file.html
Wait for it to time out or whatever.
Select the URL bar.
Press enter.


The pruning of http:// from the URL and the lack of a TLD is causing the URL bar to interpret the URL it just visited as a search! Interestingly, if I copy the URL to clipboard and paste into Notepad, it recovers the http:// and %20's all the spaces so there's clearly some logic in place already that can tell this is a URL, not a search.

I often select the URL bar and press enter instead of using the refresh button because it removes the POST, and I often develop on localhost and LAN URLs which are similarly affected if they lack a TLD.

The about:config is a good workaround since trimming the http:// is pointless anyway.