190275 - URL: meta refresh and url=http:menu.cgi

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32966

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jimmy Super]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830

Relative URLS are not interpreted by Mozilla 1.01. Instead, the relative url is
taken as a host name.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the URL listed.
(page with <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http:menu.cgi">)
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:  
Notice that mozilla will try to resolve non-existant host "menu.cgi"

Expected Results:  
Without a http://hostname/ given Mozilla should default to attempt loading the
menu.cgi from the current host.

I think the use of http-equiv refresh to redirect is not recommended in the HTML
4 spec, but Mozilla does it anyway and in that case it should also handle
relative URLs in a way compatible with other browers (Konqueror, Netscape 4,
Explorer etc)

Comment 1

[Ruslan Ismailov]

Work for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b)
Gecko/20030121. According to RFC:

Some parsers allow the scheme name to be present in a relative URI if
   it is the same as the base URI scheme.  This is considered to be a
   loophole in prior specifications of partial URI [RFC1630]. Its use
   should be avoided.

      http:g        =  http:g           ; for validating parsers
                    |  http://a/b/c/g   ; for backwards compatibility

So mozilla resolve you case as:

http://www.jettours.fr/menu.cgi?&PAGE=menu.cgi

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please always test the latest trunk milestone before you report a bug.
(in this case 1.3a)



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32966 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

VERIFIED, dupe
corrected branch field.