1411051 - Make better choices about what gets looked up by DNS vs. search.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1080682

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Right now if I type "test.jpg" into the URL bar, the response I get back is: 

"We can’t connect to the server at www.test.jpg"

This seems like it leaks some information to your DNS provider unintentionally, which is undesirable.

There might be a few ways to fix this; I propose that we add a better understanding of what a legitimate TLD looks like per:

http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

... and only attempt to do a DNS Lookup on something ending with a recognized suffix. By default, we should do a search on the rest. 

This is related to bug 1411048.

Comment 1

[Dragana Damjanovic [:dragana]]

I think decision about this is not made in necko/gecko. Moving it to firefox.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

The second entry is always a search when we think something looks like a url. This is currently mostly a workaround because the Address Bar has no idea if the typed string may be a real domain or not.
First of all because of bug 1080682, that depends on having a list of valid suffixes that is updated out-of-band, second because local domains can really be anything, I could have a "test.jpg" local domain, and we don't have the time to ask the dns.
Btw, duping.