112246 - URL's beginning "//" should default to HTTP protocol

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126181

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[brian]

typing "//www.mozilla.org/" should imply "http://www.mozilla.org/".

This is relevant because:
1) IE does it and its become a habit (for me at least) to type "//host", 
because...
2) IE requires the starting slashes as the minimum info it needs to resolve 
URL's that include a port # (otherwise it seems to consider everything up to 
the colon denoting the port # as the protocol).

I'm not going to weigh judgement on whether it would be more correct 
for "www.mozilla.org:80" to resolve as protocol="www.mozilla.org" and 
host="80", but I suppose that should be considered as well.

Thanks,
Brian.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

uri fixup

Comment 2

[Adam Lock]

-> 1.0.1

Comment 3

[Adam Lock]

Duping against 126181

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126181 ***