1610865 - "1/2.3 B" in urlbar shouldn't suggest "Visit http://0.0.0.1/2.3 B"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1566499

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[tustamido]

Can "1/2.3 B" be a valid URL? I think that typing/pasting it in urlbar and pressing enter should load results in default search engine instead of trying to load http://0.0.0.1/2.3 B as Firefox currently does.

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

This happens because URI fixup turns it into "http://0.0.0.1/2.3%20B" here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e878e5b81bb319c141900ce9cfcde732df5c8449/toolkit/components/places/UnifiedComplete.jsm#2013 keywordAsSent is empty.

If you remove the "B" and type "1/2.3", fixup turns it into "http://0.0.0.1/2.3", but keywordAsSent is "1/2.3", so _matchUnknownUrl returns false.

I'm not sure what we can do about this other than taking a closer look at how fixup works.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (out for now; he/him)]

This isn't related to alternate URIs (which are where we add www and .com to single words in some circumstances).