159742 - URI fixup happens after "open link in new window" as if the address was typed by hand

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Try left-clicking and middle-clicking each of these links.  Mozilla correctly
shows an error message after a left-click, but it does bogus URL fixup after a
middle-click.

http://netscape (bug 34943) (must have internet keywords disabled!?)

http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dj3vande/rfc\compliance.html (bug 32895)
(must be on a Windows OS?)

This bug also happens with the context menu items "open link in new window" and
"open link in new tab".

Comment 1

[Andreas Otte]

Oh yes, the docshell fixup code gets called. Maybe this bug should be assigned
to Adam Lock.

Comment 2

[benc]

->docshell

Comment 3

[Cesar Eduardo Barros]

I saw it and thought bug #34943 had revived.

http://www.debianplanet.com/node.php?id=790 had a link to
http://http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200208/msg00006.html
(notice the double http:// ; also, looks like they fixed it now).

That link took me (on middle-click) to
http://www.http.com//lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200208/msg00006.html

Shouldn't someone add a note to bug #34943 before other people think it has
regressed? I almost posted this comment there.