140737 - Can't enter URL that doesn't start without www.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Patrick Penneroux]

This URL returns Alert Message : "www.perso.wanadoo could not be found. Please
check the name and try again". 
"www." is added to the typed URL and doesn't allow to go to that address.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

http://perso.wanadoo can't be found either - nor can
http://www.perso.wanadoo/francois.jarlov

However: if you add the domain - .fr - it is found - also without the www part.
I don't think Mozilla can or should guess national top-level domains. It would
take a lot of time and generate a lot of unwanted traffic.
MSIE returns a "Page can not be found" error when attempting to load the url.
Resolving as invalid.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

mozilla prepends www. if not already there after a DNS failure and then retries.
 this is consistent with nav4x.

Comment 3

[Jimmy Lee]

Catching up.  If this is still a problem, please reopen bug.  Thanks!  Marking
Verified.

Comment 4

[benc]

this is domain guessing.