201793 - History forgets to remember some addresses like http://www.newsforge.net

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect)

Description

[Deleted User]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030412
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030412

It's really amazing. The history contents all visited addresses and pops them up
quickly after typing in some letters into the URL locator bar. But with
http://www.newsforge.net it does not work though I can find it in the history.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.newsforge.net
2. Visit another place
3. Type in "www.news" into the URL locator bar
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens though the address is stored in the history.

Expected Results:  
It should have offered the whole address "http://www.newsforge.net" for
selection in the history list below the URL locator bar.

This happens at least since Mozilla 1.2

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Problem is, we're not treating a 301 redirect as meaning we should save the
entry in urlbar history....

Comment 2

[Dennis Przybyla]

This is a redirect issue. If you enter a address that is then redirected the
address is not added to the history. It should be added to the histroy. I have
verified it on the Linux Platform using Mozilla 1.4 build 2003052807.

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

this worksforme (sorta).  typing "www.news" gives me www.newsforge.com, which
seems to be the current behavior (bug 112208 covers not storing
www.newsforge.net, assuming it was typing into the URL bar).

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

this worksforme more now than before... at step 3, I get www.newsforge.net and
www.newsforge.com

resolving WORKSFORME