159270 - Anything with a : before first slash is considered protocol

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155344

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Pieter Uylenbroek]

This is annoying if you want to surf to computername:nondefaultport, and forget
to type the http:// stuff, or to C:\ or something.

Previous versions guessed correctly, but Mozilla 1.1b doesn't want to guess at
all anymore. Was this a conscious decision or simply something that happened
accidentally?

Also, while testing a page I designed for IE compatibility, I noticed that IE
has the same behaviour with nonstandard ports for webservers as Mozilla has,
i.e. requiring the http:// prefix.

I can understand if you decided it to be like this on principle: if it isn't
port 80, we cannot assume it'll be HTTP. But OTOH, if someone types a hostname
with no portnumber or protocol, how can we know either at all?

Comment 1

[Alex Bishop]

This problem has already been reported as bug 155344. It was caused by the fix
for bug 100176.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155344 ***