147119 - Domain guessing: mozilla adds www. and .com when accessing server on lan

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Calvin Walton]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052309

On our lan, we have a computer named "hotblack". When trying to access it as
"http://hotblack/~username/" , mozilla tries to add "www." and ".com" to
"hotblack", resulting in the page being unresolved. This does not happen with
just "http://hotblack/"

We have a dns server running - if hotblack's ip address is used, it still tries
to access www.hotblack.com

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have computer on lan run webserver - users directories as format /~user
2. try to access user directory, using ip address or computer name


Actual Results:  tries to access http://www.computername.com/~user

Expected Results:  accesses http://computername/~user or http://ipaddress/~user

Comment 1

[Calvin Walton]

If we use the domain that hotblack is in (galaxy), then mozilla only tries to
add a "www."
I.E. "http://hotblack.galaxy/~user" -> "http://www.hotblack.galaxy/~user"

Comment 2

[benc]

-> docshell.

reporter: please be prepared to provide more information, like a sample document.

Some aspects of this should have been disabled.

Comment 3

[benc]

Is this still happening? The domain guessing behavior should not be affected by
the "path" stuff in the URL.

Comment 4

[Sebastian Biallas]

*** Bug 170287 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95390 ***

Comment 6

[benc]

Another example of neededing to get a clear description from the reporter.
Probably my fault...

Looking at the inital report carefuly, suggests that if you typed:

http://1.2.3.4/ (the correct IP address for an unavailable server, you would get
domain guessing via a reverse lookup)

http://www.unavailable.com/

Very scary. If the reporter is still reading this, your clarification would
still be appreciated.

Comment 7

[benc]

REOPEN: 

This has nothing to do w/ bug 95390, this is likely a domain guessing bug.

I think, that for a while, there was a behavior that took any unqualified
hostname (hostname w/o ".") and premptively did "www.hostname.com".

Many reports seem to suggest that a lookup for "www.hostname.com" is happening
even when "hostname" exists in the local domain. 

With a properly configured computer, a resolver would try "hostname.localdomain"
before erroring.

As for the the IP address -> www.hostname.com behavior, the only explaination I
have is that a server could return a redirect to "http://hotblack", which would
trigger domain guessing.

Comment 8

[benc]

-> defaults

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv] (not reading bugmail)]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 10

[Neil J. McLeish]

Firefox 1.07 guesses windows xp lan name correctly.
EG: Entering the macine name only (hydra) into the address bar gave me the
default web page of my dev box (http://hydra/).


(In reply to comment #9)
> This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".
> 
> This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
> bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
> highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.
> 
> While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we
> are asking for your help in focussing our efforts. If you can still reproduce
> this problem in the latest version of the product (see below for how to obtain a
> copy) or, for feature requests, if it's not present in the latest version and
> you still believe we should implement it, please visit the URL of this bug
> (given at the top of this mail) and add a comment to that effect, giving more
> reproduction information if you have it.
> 
> If it is not a problem any longer, you need take no action. If this bug is not
> changed in any way in the next two weeks, it will be automatically resolved.
> Thank you for your help in this matter.
> 
> The latest beta releases can be obtained from:
> Firefox:     http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
> Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5beta1.html
> Seamonkey:   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
> 

Comment 11

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

Closing this as INVALID, works correctly for me on latest release and on trunk, if it's still happening to anyone on a recent build, please feel free to comment and this bug will be reopened.

Comment 12

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

should have been -> WORKSFORME