159013 - Redirected websites don't show up in autocomplete

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: History, defect)

Description

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

if a site url redirects, the redirect url is put into history, not what the user
actually typed. This is contrary to what mozilla does.

- enter www.news.com into url bar
- start typing www.ne into url bar

expected
- should suggest www.news.com

actual
- doesn't suggest it, though news.com.com is suggested if you start typing "new"

another example is amazon.com. It redirects to a long url, and the long url is
what actually goes into autocomplete. So www.amazon.com isn't the suggestion,
but a very long and complex url that most users won't know is really just the
actual url of the homepage.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Duplicate of bug 158325?

Comment 2

[Winnie Lam]

Not exactly a duplicate of 158325.  It is a dupe of 158029 which I reported
earlier - Redirected URLs don't show up in autocomplete drop down list.  Another
example of this bug is mail.yahoo.com.

There are more people copied in this bug... I'll mark the other one as a dupe. :)

Comment 3

[Winnie Lam]

*** Bug 158029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Pavel]

I experience similar problem with mozilla on Windows, but it happens only after
I restart the browser. For example I type download.cnet.com, which redirects to
download.com.com, autocomplete shows it again until I restart the browser. Not
sure if it's same bug or should I file another one ?

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 160304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

saari points out maybe we just need the patch from bug 112208, though that
should have landed long before we cut the branch.

Comment 7

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i'm going to have to fix the global history code to add a new flag column since
hidden is overloaded. currently we end up purging anything that's typed and
hidden which catches redirects because they're hidden so as not to show up in
global history (but we want them in autocomplete).

Comment 8

[Alec Flett]

seems reasonable. I think we should try to map out all the different states a
url can be in, what should happen to them, and then try to come up with a set of
flags that allows for all possible states

Comment 9

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 168843 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

fixed.

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy fixed with 2002.10.07.04.

tested with www.macweek.com, which redirects to maccentral.macworld.com.
www.macweek.com is included in autocomplete (as is maccentral.macworld.com).

Comment 12

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

*** Bug 168843 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***