776844 - Auto-fill address bar adds https:// when i surf to localhost

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[vermeulen.thibaut]

Attachment: screenshot.59.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11

Steps to reproduce:

Wanted to surf to my "localhost".



Actual results:

Typed in "localhost" in the url-bar and the auto fill function in FF 14 automatically adds "https://localhost/"


Expected results:

Auto fill function should not apply "https://"

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Any plugins / extensions installed such as "HTTPS Everywhere"?

Comment 2

[vermeulen.thibaut]

Nope, i'm using a switchhost 1.1.0 plugin to edit my windows hostfile live in browser, but i allready disabled the plugin and tried again, with nog succes.

Further addons

- Firebug 1.10
- Dummy lipsum 3.0
- Colorzilla 2.7
- FireFTP 2.0.5
- Gridfox 2.0
- Web Developer 0.7.3
- YSlow 3.1.2

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

do you remember if you ever tried to visit https://localhost ? since autofill just uses typed urls

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

try to search for https://localhost in your history

Comment 5

[vermeulen.thibaut]

Yep, in my history i have some "https://localhost/....."-url's

I guess if i delete my history my problem will be solved until i need my https://localhost again, then i will have the same problem.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

if you type http://localhost, does it still bring you to the secure version?

Comment 7

[mozilla]

Yes, it does even if you explicitly use "http://".

Steps to reproduce:

1.) Visit "https://www.mozilla.com"
2.) Open new tab and enter "http://www.mozilla.com" . Now Firefox automatically adds a "/" at the end of URL. Hit enter key.

Result: Firefox opens https://www.mozilla.com but not http://www.mozilla.com/

If you remove or explicitly type the "/" after "http://www.mozilla.com" it does not redirect to https.

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User agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
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Comment 8

[Yajo]

This is happening to me too. It's weird. I cannot head to http://localhost at all.

I deleted all my history matching "localhost" and I tried:

- Writing localhost
- Writing localhost:80
- Writing http://localhost
- Writing http://localhost:80
- Same things with trailing /
- Clicking the link in comment 6

Nothing works. The only thing that works is writing a query string, like localhost/web (with or without http://). I'm lucky that my local web resides in that path.

BTW, I shut down my localhost server to make sure it's not sending HTTP Redirects, and it happens the same.

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Did you try safe mode? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 10

[Yajo]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] from comment #9)
> Did you try safe mode?
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-
> mode

Same problem.

Comment 11

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

If you typed http:// explicitly, I can exclude a locationbar autofill problem, since we would not overwrite what you typed.
Are you sure you didn't setup hsts on the web server?

Comment 12

[michael]

Do you still have this problem?

Comment 13

[Yajo]

Not now in FF 40.0.3.

Comment 14

[michael]

(In reply to Yajo from comment #13)
> Not now in FF 40.0.3.

Awesome Yajo. Feel free to reopen if you have similar issue.