223321 - Browser fails to load a web site if it isn't on the standard HTTP port (80)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Nick G]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Try to load the page:  http://codesniffer.com:9876.
codesniffer.com is hosted on a non-standard HTTP port (9876) due to ISP blocking
of port 80.  When trying to load the web page by specifying the desired port,
Mozilla returns an error message:
  "www.codesniffer.com cannot be found.  Please check the name and try again."

Other web browsers (such as Opera 6.x, Opera 7.x, and Netscape 4.78) load the
page properly.  Search engines line Google and Yahoo return
http://codesniffer.com:9876 as a result to queries.  Furthermore, using the
'wget' utility:
   wget http://codesniffer.com:9876
yields the index.html page from codesniffer.com.

Based on this 'support' by other browsers and programs, I believe the web page
is not at fault and that it's a bug in Mozilla.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Try to visit the URL 'http://codesniffer.com:9876' with Mozilla.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla returned the error message:
  "www.codesniffer.com cannot be found.  Please check the name and try again."

Expected Results:  
Loaded the web page.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme, linux trunk build 2003-01-17-22.  Get a page with one link on it.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

WFM 20031021 PC/WinXP

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with win2k build 20031020

Comment 4

[Nick G]

Unfortunately, restarting Mozilla fixed the problem.  Since I can't reproduce it
anymore, I hope it was just operator error.