104670 - dstc.edu.au - "http:/directory/" incorrectly treated as "http://directory.com"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect, P3)

Description

[Brian Smith (:briansmith, :bsmith, use NEEDINFO?)]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4+)
Gecko/20011008
BuildID:    2001100803

When a form has an action of "http:/[directory]" (e.g. "http:/cgi_bin") then the
URL is treated as "http://[directory].com". This causes a serious problem in the
above site because the user is forwarded to a completely unrelated site
(cgi-bin.com) when submitting the form instead of being subscribed to the
mailing list. I imagine that this will cause problems for other sites as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Go to above URL. type in "[e-mail]" in the first text box and
"[e-mail]" in the second text boxPress the "Add the following command"
button. 

Actual Results:  You will be transfered to "http://cgi-bin.com/majordomo/13007"
(a typo-squatting site).

Expected Results:  you should be transfered to
"http://archive.dstc.edu.au/cgi-bin/majordomo/13007" which will ask you for more
commands to process.

IE 5.5 SP 2 handles this case correctly (at least, in the expected way).

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->necko

Comment 2

[timeless]

EVANG!!!

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

For the reporter: 
This is not a bug in mozilla because "http:/" is not longer supported.

marking new as a Evangelism bug

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

really assiging 

Comment 5

[Andreas Otte]

this is now fixed by the patch for bug 32966 or bug 163225

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.