Hostname not recognized in address bar
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: private, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0
Steps to reproduce:
Enter a hostname with a 1 letter TLD in the address bar (ie. "some-server.a")
Actual results:
The input was interpreted as search request
Expected results:
To my knowledge 1 letter TLDs are valid TLDs. So "some-server.a" is a perfectly valid hostname. Therefore Firefox should issue a http/https request to that server and not search for the server name using the selected search engine.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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(In reply to private from comment #0)
Enter a hostname with a 1 letter TLD in the address bar (ie. "some-server.a")
.a is not in the PSL (public suffix list), you likely defined it in your network and it's not widely used, so we default to a search.
To support your use-case, you can do one of these things:
- use a more widely supported suffix, like .local, .internal or .test instead of .a
- add your .a suffix to the allowlist, by going to about:support and creating a new BOOLEAN pref named browser.fixup.domainsuffixwhitelist.a and set it to true
- ask Firefox to check the dns first (setting browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words to true in about:config), though this will make searches slower because we'll have to hit the dns every time to make a decision
We don't plan to fix this, because we think the current behavior is the best compromise and with a couple prefs you can customize it to your needs.
Technically speaking all your suggested TLDs are not valid for local use for different reasons:
- .local is only valid for mDNS, not "classic" DNS
- .internal is not reserved or specified. (see https://serverfault.com/questions/17255/top-level-domain-domain-suffix-for-private-network)
- .test is hardly an option for a non-testing environment.
Only one letter TLDs are exempt from becoming public TLDs, for my network it's .i for "internal".
I appreciate your tips and will check which one works best but I still fail to understand how a modern browser is not able to access a perfectly valid URL when entered in the address bar. This is something that shouldn't happen.
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