232142 - Malformed URL (http://http://www.foo.com) sends me to www.microsoft.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 231720

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[yuri]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040125 Firebird/0.8.0+

If you enter a malformed url that starts with a double "http://" or click on a
link that is similary malformed the browser takes you to www.microsoft.com. an
older build just crashed the browser comepletely.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter http://http://google.com in the url bar
2.Press enter
3.

Actual Results:  
goes to microsoft.com

Expected Results:  
should ether chop off the extra http:// and take me to google.com, or return an
error dialog box

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231720 ***