202219 - file: URLs ignore hostname, but history does not

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect)

Description

[benc]

STEPS:
Take any file URL you use (most people use the "three slash" format).
Go to URL.
Check history, it will appear under "(no host)".
Change URL to have a "hostname", like example provided above.
Go to URL.
Check history, you will see the URL is filed under the hostname you added.

NOTE:
This problem was mentioned in bug 107153, but not at the time it did not strike
me as a real bug. 

I searched for dupes, b/c this happens w/ ftp too, so I figured someone would
have noticed.

Even if there is a "History ignores URL scheme" bug, the problem w/ file: is
special because our file: protocol handler ignores the hostname field.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> because our file: protocol handler ignores the hostname field

Isn't that just a bug that needs fixing?

Comment 2

[benc]

Yes. That is bug 70871, I should have mentioned it specifically.

It did occur to me that maybe what should happen is that when people parse a
file: URL, that the hostanem is always returned as NULL, but I'm not sure if
that is the right approach.