185890 - http://localhost urls get remapped to http://ipaddr/ without port information

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[steve loughran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Take a URL to tomcat, as installed out the box on my local system:
http://localhost:8080/index.jsp  Browse to it. 


instead of seeing the tomcat start page (as on IE), I get a pause, a status line
saying "Sending request to 192.168.1.34", and then eventually the URL in the
browser bar becomes http://192.168.1.34/ and I get a TCP error page. Because
there is no server on http://192.168.1.34/; only on port 80.

Type in the correct path of http://192.168.1.34:8080/ , or even
http://ranier:8080/ and all works, but for some reason http://localhost is
broken, because whatever code handles that cannot deal with the concept of the
web server being anywhere other than port 80.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a web server on port 8080
2. dont run anything on port 80
3. try and browse to http://localhost:8080/

Actual Results:  
I get a TCP-connect error, because it is trying to browse to
http://my-local-ipaddress/ without any port information

Expected Results:  
If you are going to remap localhost to an ipaddr, retain port info. Or just not
bother with going that far down the networking stack and try and open a socket
to localhost.

Comment 1

[benc]

Do you have a log entry in your server you can post here?

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

WORKSFORME linux 2003010208.  i have a proxy running locally on port 8080, and
http://localhost:8080/ hits the proxy server's error page as expected.

reporter: do you have some sort of personal firewall software on your system?

Comment 3

[steve loughran]

no firewall software, just boring old XP; tomcat 4.1.18 on the server. Which
responds to a GET / HTTP/1.0 with a redir 

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://localhost:8080/index.jsp
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 00:19:57 GMT
Server: Apache Coyote/1.0
Connection: close

Comment 4

[simon annear]

Worksforme

Running Windows XP with Moz 1.8b2 (not using tomcat, but ssh tunnel listening on
localhost:1080

Reporter - can you confirm that this is still a problem with a recent version of
mozilla

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Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

Definitely WORKSFORME in Firefox 1.0 or later.