219528 - VeriSign SiteFinder replaces selected Smart Browsing Internet Keyword handler

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 219464

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[B. Galliart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701

VeriSign SiteFinder breaks some of the functionality of Smart Browsing.  I would
like to suggest adding an "Domain existence verification" option to Smart
Browsing.  When enabled, Mozilla should do an NS lookup on the domain first
before doing an A/CNAME lookup.  While an A/CNAME lookup for name-with-typo.com
will be redirected to SiteFinder, an NS lookup on name-with-typo.com will reveal
an NXDOMAIN response allowing Mozilla Smart Browsing to act accordingly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Turn on Internet Keywords and Domain Guessing
2.Type a signal mis-spelled word or give a full URL to a mis-spelled domain
under .net or .com
3.Take note that the Smart Browsing Internet Keyword functionality is no longer
provided

Actual Results:  
Mis-spelled domains now result in VeriSign SiteFinder instead of the choosen
handler for Internet Keyword.

Expected Results:  
Confirmed the existence of the domain via lookup for an NS record and for an
NXDOMAIN produced results from the choosen handler for Internet Keyword.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219464 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

V dupe.