140826 - url with relative path (only one /) makes mozilla think it's an absolute url

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32966

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Wim Coekaerts]

<meta http-equiv="Refresh"
content="0;url=http:/jol_ext-jolap-dad/plsql/jol_www_pages_pkg.jol_intro">

this should be seen as
http://jobs.oracle.com/jol_ext-jolap-dad/plsql/jol_www_pages_pkg.jol_intro
but mozilla thinks jol_ext-jolap-dad is the hostname.

Now, I realize that according to the spec this is a bit questionable syntax but
it works fine with IE, W3M, Netscape4 ... just not with ns6 or mozilla (even 1.0pre)
I had a discussion with Mike Shaver about this and he seemed to agree that this
should really be allowed.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This has been being discussed for years...  See bug 32966 and bug 22251.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32966 ***

Comment 2

[John Unruh]

Verified duplicate.